I keep losing my dots!


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The little dot that appears beside threads that I have posted in recently keeps disappearing from several threads that I post in regularly (or occasionally but recently).

Dots will be gone, they come back if I post in a thread, but next time I load the page they are gone again (sometimes – it seems a bit random). The problem has been going on for a few days.

This is happening over a range of threads and forums, but the main problems ones are ‘Aubrey’s Eberron Campaign’ and ‘Aubrey’s Rise of the Runelords Campaign’ in Play By Post.

Any fix for this?


Mothman wrote:

The little dot that appears beside threads that I have posted in recently keeps disappearing from several threads that I post in regularly (or occasionally but recently).

Dots will be gone, they come back if I post in a thread, but next time I load the page they are gone again (sometimes – it seems a bit random). The problem has been going on for a few days.

This is happening over a range of threads and forums, but the main problems ones are ‘Aubrey’s Eberron Campaign’ and ‘Aubrey’s Rise of the Runelords Campaign’ in Play By Post.

Any fix for this?

I've been having the exact same problem, specifically with the CoT PbP I'm in.

Shadow Lodge

Pathfinder Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Same here! I believe we have somehow angered the dot gods.


Same.

Dark Archive

Ditto. Dotto. Blotto. Whatevs.

I am dotless! (Most commonly on the PBP threads)


Posting to get my dot ... :P

Same problem here. It seems completely random ... sometimes it's there ... sometimes it's not.

-TDL


And the same is true for threads in a list. (I'm only saying this in the unlikely case that this helps you track this bug.)

EDIT: And yes, I, too, have noticed it happen mostly with PBPs and PBP Discussion threads.


I remember a thread about this earlier. It was linked to load time for the page -- establishing the dots and number of posts since your last takes extra time and resources. So sometimes they are left off.

My guess is the Superstar competition is generating enough traffic to slow the servers and eclipse the dot features. Or Gary screwed up. Without a mea culpa from Gary I vote for high traffic.


Okay, if losing the dots sometimes means loading the page faster, I can live with losing the dots.


Comes sniffing in. Leaves a dot in the middle of the carpet. Trots out.

Scarab Sages

Does the dot loss happen when you a prolific poster? I've been under the impression that only the last X threads you post in retain the dot.


Tom Baumbach wrote:
Does the dot loss happen when you a prolific poster? I've been under the impression that only the last X threads you post in retain the dot.

I'm sure that's not the issue. Sometimes ALL the dots disappear, and sometimes SOME of them do.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

I changed how the dots work a couple days ago for performance reasons but accidentally left some debugging code in there. That code has now been removed so the dots should start working better over the next couple of days.


Oh! Sure! A couple of dots perform poorly on standardize tests and instead of dealing with the Dot Union, you just fire them all. So typical!


Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber
CourtFool wrote:
Oh! Sure! A couple of dots perform poorly on standardize tests and instead of dealing with the Dot Union, you just fire them all. So typical!

Loosing CF's dots might just win you an award Gary.


I am marshalling the dots as well as dashes right now to form the Morse Union.

.... . .-.. .-.. / -. --- / .-- . / .-- --- -. .----. - / --. ---

Owner - House of Books and Games LLC

CourtFool wrote:

I am marshalling the dots as well as dashes right now to form the Morse Union.

.... . .-.. .-.. / -. --- / .-- . / .-- --- -. .----. - / --. ---

E R I K M O N A I S ...

Hey! I thought there was no profanity allowed on here!


gbonehead wrote:
Hey! I thought there was no profanity allowed on here!

You just have to be creative enough to get around the filters, thou rancorous boil-brained coxcomb!

RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32

CourtFool wrote:

I am marshalling the dots as well as dashes right now to form the Morse Union.

.... . .-.. .-.. / -. --- / .-- . / .-- --- -. .----. - / --. ---

--- .... / -.-- . ... / -.-- --- ..- / .-- .. .-.. .-..


. -..- .--. .-.. --- ... .. ...- . / .-. ..- -. . ...

Owner - House of Books and Games LLC

Spoiler:
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