BUG: Forum software duplicating posts under certain circumstances

Rich DeRuiter
Rich DeRuiter MVP Posts: 6,729
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I've seen several examples of this: the exact same post showing 2 or 3 times in a row.

This happened to me yesterday when submitting a post, and the software timed out, and reported so on the web page. I hit my browser's "Refresh" button and the post was duplicated. I suspect the same thing has happened with others.

I immediately deleted the duplicate post. Others haven't, maybe not knowing how, or not noticing what happened.

 Help links: WIKI;  Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)

Comments

  • fgh
    fgh Member Posts: 8,948 ✭✭✭

    Thanks for reporting this. I was planning to, once I had finished something else. There has definitely been an abnormal number of duplicate and triplicate posts lately, and by people who wouldn't normally make such mistakes.

    Did you use the Quick Reply? The only time it's happened to me (yesterday), was when I used the Quick Reply for the first time in quite a while.

    I'm not sure I refreshed, but the popup didn't go away after I first tried to submit, and there was something else that misbehaved as well and made me assume nothing had happened.

    Mac Pro (late 2013) OS 12.6.2

  • Rich DeRuiter
    Rich DeRuiter MVP Posts: 6,729

    fgh said:

    Did you use the Quick Reply? The only time it's happened to me (yesterday), was when I used the Quick Reply for the first time in quite a while.

    No. I always use the regular reply, and try to quote something, so it's easy to tell whom I'm responding to.

    It seems the forum software hangs and seems to do nothing. Refreshing, or trying again at that point seems to duplicate the post.

     Help links: WIKI;  Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)

  • Rich DeRuiter
    Rich DeRuiter MVP Posts: 6,729

    This is still happening.

    Here is another example of this:

    http://community.logos.com/forums/p/42728/320398.aspx#320398

     Help links: WIKI;  Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)