Forum Issue

[GandalfTehGray]

Not sure how many people visit regularly on mobile but been having a strange issue lately. Usually if I post or find an interesting thread I'll open it in a new tab and leave it open for up to 2 days for responses. This last week though if a thread has multiple pages it keeps reverting back to the previous page. 

So if I was on page 2 when I swap back to the tab it has went back to page 1. Or if it was page 10 it goes back to 9. This throws off my page placement and leads to more effort than desired to try and find new posts. 

Anyone else have this problem? May just be a cache issue but wanted to check! 

[Admiral_Karasu]

6 minutes ago, GandalfTehGray said:

Not sure how many people visit regularly on mobile but been having a strange issue lately. Usually if I post or find an interesting thread I'll open it in a new tab and leave it open for up to 2 days for responses. This last week though if a thread has multiple pages it keeps reverting back to the previous page. 

So if I was on page 2 when I swap back to the tab it has went back to page 1. Or if it was page 10 it goes back to 9. This throws off my page placement and leads to more effort than desired to try and find new posts. 

Anyone else have this problem? May just be a cache issue but wanted to check! 

Thanks for letting us know. @HogHammer any ideas? IIRC, didn't we experience something like this originally, at least I did, but that was on PC because I've only ever used a PC to read the forum.

[HogHammer]

30 minutes ago, GandalfTehGray said:

Anyone else have this problem? May just be a cache issue but wanted to check! 

I will check on it.  I don't use a mobile device for DevStrike, but a surprising number do.  I'll run this up the chain of command (expertise).

[I_cant_Swim_]

Thanks, I'll delegate the issue to @nobody. He can't pass it further, haha. We should hear from him soon.

[nobody]

Yes master. 

"There's not a problem that I can't fix
'Cause I can do it in the mix"

 

• Test bed set up
• Experiment running
• Final results in 48 hrs.

 

[nobody]

Initial results.

On day 0, tabs opened from DevStrike thread pages (n) do not redirect to n-1

multiple pages do not redirect, using Firefox on iPhone.

[Wolfswetpaws]

🤔

[Snargfargle]

1 hour ago, GandalfTehGray said:

Anyone else have this problem? May just be a cache issue but wanted to check! 

Most browsers save previously-loaded web pages to a cache in order to bring them up faster, only updating specific information that has been changed since the last visit. Sometimes the new information doesn't get automatically detected though. Try refreshing the web page. If that doesn't work, clear your browser's cache.

[I_cant_Swim_]

yes, so far we find no addressing issue so it is likely browser cache settings

[nobody]

ok, so... @GandalfTehGray maybe you want to see this.

This test was done once only, so bear that in mind.

 

Spoiler

Method

I used Mozilla Firefox on an iPhone, and used the thread: "What were your greatest achievements today", which has 64 pages. 

 

I opened and saved two tabs, one on page 63 of 64

 

url is www.devstrike.net/topic/1339-what-were-your-greatest-gaming-achievements-today/page/63/

one on page 64 of 64.

url is www.devstrike.net/topic/1339-what-were-your-greatest-gaming-achievements-today/page/64/

on day zero (tabs freshly created), both tabs worked as expected.

on day 1, both tabs had page= 63.

Conclusion: after 1 test, it would appear that a url page redirect was indeed rewritten.

 

TLDR

Your observation appears correct - I could indeed reproduce the effect you saw. Assuming further tests validate the findings then this is odd, as it means a url page redirect is rewritten at some point, under the conditions used.   

The test is being conducted again, but what can I say - Nice catch! 

 

[Wolfswetpaws]

👍

[thornzero]

How lucky that nobody has the answer.

[Admiral_Karasu]

3 minutes ago, thornzero said:

How lucky that nobody has the answer.

We really have nobody to thank for it.

[Arcus_Aesopi]

Y'all should get punalties for those... 🙂

[Wolfswetpaws]

14 minutes ago, Arcus_Aesopi said:

Y'all should get punalties for those... 🙂

I'm yer huckleberry for pun-ishment.  😉 

[GandalfTehGray]

13 hours ago, nobody said:

ok, so... @GandalfTehGray maybe you want to see this.

This test was done once only, so bear that in mind.

 

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Method

I used Mozilla Firefox on an iPhone, and used the thread: "What were your greatest achievements today", which has 64 pages. 

 

I opened and saved two tabs, one on page 63 of 64

 

url is www.devstrike.net/topic/1339-what-were-your-greatest-gaming-achievements-today/page/63/

one on page 64 of 64.

url is www.devstrike.net/topic/1339-what-were-your-greatest-gaming-achievements-today/page/64/

on day zero (tabs freshly created), both tabs worked as expected.

on day 1, both tabs had page= 63.

Conclusion: after 1 test, it would appear that a url page redirect was indeed rewritten.

 

TLDR

Your observation appears correct - I could indeed reproduce the effect you saw. Assuming further tests validate the findings then this is odd, as it means a url page redirect is rewritten at some point, under the conditions used.   

The test is being conducted again, but what can I say - Nice catch! 

 

Can I add Supertester for dev strike now 😛

10 hours ago, Wolfswetpaws said:

I'm yer huckleberry for pun-ishment.  😉 

I believe this is where I'm supposed to insert a gif or YouTube link 😛