Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

Scratch that. Cleared browsing history and it now works.

The profile page of this user shows that they were last active in July 2011.

However, they last posted in March 2014.

Just to satisfy my idle curiosity, can you explain this please?

Simples... the user has not been active since the migration to Microcosm and on vBulletin had marked their profile as "invisible" so that you couldn't browse the "Who's Online" bit and stalk them.

In vBulletin, marking yourself invisible stopped updating the "Last Active" column.

In Microcosm we do not have "Who's Online" so everyone has more privacy and there is no need for the "Invisible" mode. We also only show "Last Active" down to a 24 hour period rather than to the second (like vBulletin did) so it doesn't matter that we keep it up to date.

In vBulletin Last Active = last time you viewed a page or logged in whilst not invisible, displayed via Who's Online down to the second.

In Microcosm Last Active = last time you interacted as a logged in user with any part of the system, but only displayed as a 24 hour period.

Reading that carefully, you'll notice that vBulletin doesn't update Last Active if you post whilst invisible. This makes sense for them, you could be posting in a private forum on vBulletin and don't want to leak that info via Last Active. Hence, being invisible on that version of vBulletin didn't update the value.

In essence: Microcosm is correct, but values from before the migration to Microcosm may be off if the user had invisible enabled and hasn't used the forum since the migration.

Understood, many thanks!

Link in post 675 in:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/240510/?offset=650

works nicely, but then when it's quoted in post 676 it takes you to the Oxford sub-forum.

Can't log in on my PC. The emailed code is coming through, but when I enter it I just keep getting a server error.

I see the same thing on Chrome. I'll take a look.

Hah, I hadn't yet fixed anything, but had determined that this was an auth0 bug and was writing the support ticket showing the debug stuff... and they've fixed it.

Apologies on their behalf for the downtime.

and they've fixed it

Indeed. At the last attempt I got a plain 500 error rather than a lfgss error page, but at least the cookie had been created and going home showed me logged in.

What just happened? Was a scary few moments...

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Root cause: Linode reported multiple network issues last night.

So, just occasionally, I'd like to reply to my own posts, but I can only edit them, not reply to them. Is there any way to do this?

I think this (kinda) has been discussed before, so sorry if I'm beating a dead horse.

I wanted to tag j.rasmussen in a post, but when I start typing '@j.' it stops giving suggestions (because of the period I'm guessing).

Tagging does work however when I just copy/paste his full username.

Search bug

Search for "salsa" in the SSMTB thread works:
https://www.lfgss.com/search/?q=salsa&type=conversation&type=comment&id=261535&sort=date

Search for posts by me in the SSMTB thread works:
https://www.lfgss.com/search/?type=comment&authorId=59992&id=261535

Search for posts by me containing "Salsa" in the SSMTB thread doesn't work:
https://www.lfgss.com/search/?q=salsa&type=conversation&type=comment&id=261535&sort=date&authorId=59992

So, just occasionally, I'd like to reply to my own posts, but I can only edit them, not reply to them. Is there any way to do this?

No.

The reasoning is:

1. You can edit.
   
2. People bump the hell out of threads when they can reply to themselves.
   

I wanted to tag j.rasmussen in a post, but when I start typing '@j.' it stops giving suggestions (because of the period I'm guessing).

Tagging does work however when I just copy/paste his full username.

@'ing follows Twitter username rules, so won't work on all usernames.

But... if you do put in the full username and my backend code can match up the name with an existing profile, then I'll do it anyway.

Search for posts by me containing "Salsa" in the SSMTB thread doesn't work:
https://www.lfgss.com/search/?q=salsa&ty­pe=conversation&type=comment&id=261535&s­ort=date&authorId=59992

That's neat.

I wonder what it's doing!

I've been having a similar problem with the following page loading very (nearly 15s) slowly. Many pages of followed stuff, but can't find anywhere to 'mark all as read'. Where should I be looking for that?

Edit: ah, found it! Maybe useful putting a similar link/command on the following page too? My bookmark is the following page and I rarely look on the home page.

@Velocio
Marked everything as read and the following page still takes ~18s to load. Any suggestions?

I think I've found the problem.

You're following 26,812 things and it's at 18 seconds.
I'm following 9,857 things and it's at around 3 seconds.

There appears to be some kind of linear degradation in the query, probably a row-level calculation or loop.

It's definitely a bug, I'll have to delve into this later... I'll try to take a look tonight.

Looks well past linear...! The load time fell off a cliff recently, used to be a few seconds (fair enough) but it wasn't noticeable. Now it's painful.

Is there any way to mass unfollow items/a whole sub-forum of items? I would say 95% of that lot are threads from classifieds and it would be a rather laborious task to unfollow them all...

Ah, there's a cartesian within the query and that causes it to go nuts.

cartesian

Pardon? I'm all set to launch into coordinate system puns... waits eagerly

I can probably nuke all of the follows for classifieds... want me to do that?

Fire away.

I followed the whole of the classifieds because it's the best way to keep an eye out for the bargains, but it does lead to a lot of dross. I've since stopped, because I couldn't see the wod for the trees.