Order of posts - problem with timestamps?


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And just now I experienced the glitch mentioned in the PS above below.

The thread was created just fine, but post #1 was not shown until a few minutes later.

Edit: The order of my posts in this thread is another example for the problem mentioned in post #1...


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Lately, the Paizo server(s) seem to have a problem with the correct order of some posts.

Example (from a PbP thread):

According to the time displayed post #32 (Link) was created three minutes before post #33 (Link).

I think that's only possible if there's more than one source for the timestamps of the posts AND these sources are not synchronized.
Maybe on one (or more) server(s) the time is off by a few minutes?

As this causes some minor issues with the readability of threads (sometimes the reaction comes before the action), could you have a look into this?

Thanks in advance!

kaervek78

PS: Maybe this problem and the one below are related:

Some new posts are not shown immediately after being submitted.
Once the browser (re-)loads the page, the URL includes the number of the new post after the #, but the post is not displayed.
However, they are not lost - just a couple of minutes (and a few refreshes) later they're displayed just fine...

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kaervek78 wrote:

PS: Maybe this problem and the one below are related:

Some new posts are not shown immediately after being submitted.
Once the browser (re-)loads the page, the URL includes the number of the new post after the #, but the post is not displayed.
However, they are not lost - just a couple of minutes (and a few refreshes) later they're displayed just fine...

I've experienced this last one on a daily basis for years. My posting process now by default includes a period of refreshing the page until I actually see my post displayed, otherwise I'm afraid my post won't appear at all.


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This has been going on for months (example 1, example 2). Has there been any discussion or even acknowledgement from Paizo about this?


Crazy. I just made a post in a thread. Then I made a second post. The usual issue with the posts not appearing occurred, but I refreshed the page enough times that the posts eventually appeared.

But then I made an edit on the first of those two posts, and after I submitted the edit, the second post was gone! I refreshed the page a few times and it eventually re-appeared. But still, crazy.


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I did notice something interesting with regard to a couple of posts I made less than an hour ago on another forum of this site. Before my posts showed up, the "Recent Threads in" box gave the time of posting as around 12:30 p.m., which was the equivalent of when I posted the message in the Pacific time zone but not in my time zone as all the other post times were. When the post finally showed up, the time was in the y minutes ago format.

Maybe the tech folks will find that info useful for debugging purposes.


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Yes, it's happened to me a lot recently, but not for months.

Very annoying.


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@Paizo: It's been more than 2 weeks. Is there any update on this issue?

At least some reaction (e.g. "We're looking into this") would be great...

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