UKC

Over the last three hours I've noticed about 20-30 threads have been bumped up to look as if someone's added a comment when they haven't. This is extremely tedious with discussions that one finds interesting. Some of these 'bumps' are of posts that are hours or even days old (i.e have run their course, died a death etc.) I hope the moderators aren't doing this deliberately, because it's quite irritating for the user.

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

I spotted that weirdness, too. I suspect a rash of deleted spam...

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

My 'my forums' earlier was just along list of Pub Forum topics.

I wondered if the Lemming had been busy

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:


Have you asked them?

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

Rather unlikely. Wouldnt be surprised if they were tidying up after a spammer though.

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

Here's my speculation. I wouldn't be surprised if server got down, they tried to back it up and something went wrong (time zones, algorithms to find the newest thread, database mismatch, etc.). I can't imagine how it was programming error and I don't think it has anything to do with people (well, apart from creating a bug in the system!). I am not a WEB developer, but that sounds more feasible than that someone is messing around with UKC.

If you are interested in any particular topic (or want to see if someone replied to you), just add it to your topics and track them by "My Topics". It looks like the bug affects that list as well, though.

In reply to PPP:

Someone posts then decides not to send or deletes it?

In reply to Offwidth:

That's interesting. Someone is definitely having some fun...

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

We are looking into this problem.

Alan

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

I noticed this yesterday morning and there were one or two extra symptoms as well.

1) I couldn't log in as the system didn't remember my username till I entered my email.

2) On a couple of occasions I edited a post and saw the updated entry - coming back to the thread a minute or two later the changes were not visible any more. This morning the edits are visible correctly. Looks as if a transaction/update isn't happening correctly.

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

I wondered what was going on, assumed someone was posting a lot of comments which were being moderated

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

It's all sorted guys, the last post time on the threads should be back in sync.

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

Blame the new Government. They seem to be being blamed and accused of everything else untoward at the moment...

In reply to FactorXXX:


No, you've got it wrong. The government are too powerful you have to blame a minority even if they have nothing to do with it. As examples you could blame immigrants for traffic jams on the M4 or the SNP for an election result in Thanet.

In reply to Bob:

I prefer the idea of North Korean hackers

In reply to wercat:

In retaliation for this:

http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=614111&v=1 ?