Hi
I'm wondering why on one thread in particular, I'm getting two topic notifications before I look at the thread. They're usually just the same post not posts from two different people. :confused:
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Hi
I'm wondering why on one thread in particular, I'm getting two topic notifications before I look at the thread. They're usually just the same post not posts from two different people. :confused:
Which thread?
The dumb user thread:
http://antionline.com/showthread.php...5&goto=newpost
Did you subscribe to the forum as well as the thread? That would account for it. Another explanation would be that you're set to auto-subcribe to any thread you post in, and then you subscribed manually as well. You can check this in user cp, list subscriptions and see if that thread shows up twice. You can also check subscribed forums in there as well. Otherwise it's just a glitch that we'd have to try and track down.
Are you subscribed to and receive email notices for any other threads?
No, it shows up once, same as all the others. I didn't do anything special when I posted it, I'm just set to receive email replies to any thread I participate in. It doesn't particularly bother me, I'm just curious as to why it should happen.
Hi Moira,
This could be a total red herring, but might it have been caused by the fact that you posted a link to the Dumb User thread in Mark Boyle's Stupid Users Should Not............. thread?
That might cause the duplication if it found unread stuff. Even though you posted in a different thread perhaps it followed the link to the original post?
:)
No, it was doing it before that.
OMG AO IS BROKEN! SOME ONE FIX IT! hah.. I'd just ignore it if its a one time thing.
Yes ... I was just curious that was all.
OK Moira,
My argument would be that this has only happened with one thread. It is the only occurrence since we updated the software in September 2006, as far as I am aware.
Looks like one of those weird database corruptions that happens with power spikes or brownouts? Maybe even a damaged micro-portion of the disk?
If it were software, I would have expected more incidents in the last 9 months, no matter how exotic the bug?
It kind of reminds me of a former member called Shrekkie (he had to change his name :eek:)
For some reason, and with no plausible explanation, it suddenly happened that when he posted to a thread it got frozen and no-one else could post to it afterwards. That was the old system, and we never found the answer.
Just hope that H.M. Revenue and Customs make a similar error in your favour (that's our IRS folks :cool:) they will never find it....................:D
That never happens!Quote:
Originally Posted by nihil
So here's a question: what if you unsubscribed and re-subscribed? Does it still happen (thinking of the database update suggestion that nihil referenced)
OK I'll try it. What's the betting nobody posts anything else in the thread now :)
Edit This is going to sound dumb, but how do you unsubscribe and resubscribe?
Go to the thread --> Thread Tools --> Unsubscribe
Menu bar (yellow) far left:
User CP (then:)
List Subscriptions (option on the left)
Subscribed threads in folder
select (check) the thread you want
use the dropdown menu and select the delete/unsubscribe option
Click the "Go" button
:)
Done it! I've unsubscribed then subscribed, now I just need someone to post something in the thread ..... any takers?
Start of the thread:
http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=275215
Last post:
http://antionline.com/showthread.php?t=275215&page=9
Post, post, post.
You're meant to be posting in the Dumb User thread JPnyc, not here!
D'OH! Well after that faux pas, it would seem I qualify!
Many thanks .... and I only got one notification. At the moment anyway. It's literally just landed in gmail - I'm not sure whether the duplicate ones both came at once or spread out more.
Edit Oh no! Another notification just landed! What an incredibly irritating puzzle. :confused:
Moira, have you changed emails since you first signed up?
No ..... not at all.
Try unsubscribing without re-subscribing
OK - will you post a test message again in the dumb user post? I've unsubscribed.
Well, I didn't get a notification at all about that. I only found out about it by checking the thread. I might as well resubscribe again.
Edit And it's back to the duplicate notifications. It is strange :confused:
Whoops! I realise I double posted just before - sorry.
Hi Moira,
I have moved the offending thread from Tech Humour to General Chit Chat, to see if I can provoke a sufficient change in the database to have any effect.
Yeah! clutching at straws now :D
EDIT: Please check the Dumb User thread, I think that I have the answer but I do not know the cause. e-mail is naturally duplicated to allow for HTML and plaintext readers.
Somehow, for messages relating to this thread Moira's system is splitting these two formats out and showing them separately. It actually "knows" that they are the exact same thing (rather than a duplicate) which is why it closes them both when one is read.
Actually that did send two identical emails, but didn't open the second one when I read the first - or if it was going to, I didn't give it sufficient time. Usually this isn't the case - both are marked read once I've read one but not this time.
I forgot to ask about this, sorry about that. I will tomorrow