Loading more threads in tag view duplicates listings

endorphin

Using "Load More" at the bottom of a tag view can duplicate two of the already visible threads in the listing:

This doesn't happen all the time but I can't determine the exact circumstances in which it does happen.

extreme_one

Yes I've seen this. For me the thread at the bottom of the list almost always ends up being listed twice when I click the button.

i_am_sy

I have a theory for why/how this happens, but as I say it just a theory.

When you load the page you get displayed the latest posts, so for this example we will call the latest post 'post 1' and the second 'post 2' ect.

So we have: Post 1 - 10 on screen. Now in the time between you scrolling down and pressing the show more option 2 more posts are made. These are now post 1 and 2. And post 9 and 10 have become 11 and 12. But as you have selected to show more posts the page has not been refreshed so it will still show the original 1 - 10, what we now know as 3 - 12. Now you have pressed the button the next part of the page loads showing the latest posts 11 through to 20. So now on screen we are seeing post 3 -12 and 11 - 20

What needs to happen is the page not load posts 11 - 20 but infact to load posts relative to what's already displayed, so in this case 13 - 22

Just an idea.

endorphin

i_am_sy your reasoning looks feasible. So it's basically due to the list of threads being reordered (either because new threads have been created or current threads have been replied to) between viewing the original page and pressing Load More.

If true I suspect previous Flarum installations have not have the volumes of posts our Help forum does so this glitch has not been observed previously.

alex_w

i_am_sy This is pretty much exactly what we think is happening as well. I'll get it added to the master list here on the community as something we're aware of.

i_am_sy

endorphin

That's my thoughts exactly. I'm not aware of any Flarum community as large or active, so it's very possible that if this is the case they won't have noticed, or if they had noticed considered it to be a major issue.

guy_ow

Evening folks

It is something that has been noticed and I know @alex_w is aware of it, although I can't see it listed in the thread here, so could be one to add when possible.

chibi88

Something's going very wrong with the forum today, for me. Just tried to go further back than the second "read more" page and I'm just getting repeated posts. At first I thought i was seeing different discussions on the same topic but just saw five of the same Brexit posts and multiples of the "getting one of the new iphones" posts. Like, not different discussions with the same title, the exact same posts. All in a row.

This happening to anyone else? Is it me?

isabel1066

chibi88 just went back 4 pages of your forum replies but i know what you mean as its happened to me and I'm on a pc.

kate1028

Yes, that happens to me too chibi88 - whichever part of the Forum I'm in. Click on 'load more' and it's full of duplications, which just take up room, and you don't know where you are ! I think it's been like that ever since the new Forum started, and I know it's been mentioned in other feedback threads/posts.

chibi88

I regularly see the last post before the read more button come up as the first on the next lot of pages but today it.'s just a stream of the same 5 or so threads again and again. Have no idea what's beyond 10 minutes ago, to give a time perspective.

isabel1066

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chibi88 14 days ago
A simple favour, The spy who dumped me, Annihilation if you've not seen it already

chibi88

Is that a setting i'm not familiar with, or are you saying you're literally seeing pages of my actual replies and are you having a go at me for it?

isabel1066

chibi88 Is that a setting i'm not familiar with, or are you saying you're literally seeing pages of my actual replies and are you having a go at me for it?

no repeats all new i did for you 14 days back and now saying having a go at you for trying to help you.

chibi88

isabel1066 sorry it was hard to tell from what you said, and you kept saying you’ve seen “your replies over 4 pages” so it felt like you were annoyed at seeing my replies. I’ve only been online for 30 minutes and replied to here and 2 other posts so I really didn’t know what you were getting at.

isabel1066

chibi88 what you have posted since joining giffgaff i can see no repeats pages after pages all you have put on the forum i can see.

isabel1066

bungle_2010 does this wring a bell the very first post you put on the forum 5 days ago In What is happening
bungle_20105 days ago
That's a shame

chibi88

isabel1066 I'm not on about my own replies, hun, I'm on about the main page. I'll take a screen shot and show you.

chibi88

bungle_2010
That's mind boggling for a forum. But even before going further than two pages, it was just a repeat of the same five posts which is why I only noticed it once I tried to go further. Two posts of the same name on the first page? It happens. The next time I saw it a few posts later, I noticed it was by the same author. The the next 3 posts, all Brexit, all by the same person, with the same views and replies, that's when it twigged that all the repeats I was seeing, were the same posts.

So wierd for a forum.

isabel1066

chibi88 even on the main page I can scroll back the pages one after the other and none are repeated.

isabel1066

chibi88 i click on the left of the page general discussion only that stops what you are seeing.then all the replies are a general discussion only.

gvmhb

Hmm. I think they must have uploaded some updates.
I did think it was working better, but there's definitely something weird going on 😰