Buggy post 06/20/2016 07:05 PM CDT
There's a weird bug with a post on the forums:

http://forums.play.net/forums/DragonRealms/Discussions%20with%20DragonRealms%20Staff%20and%20Players/Suggestions%20for%20DragonRealms%20(Overall)/view/4607

In threaded view, this post is showing up twice in the folder and new posts lists, but the link above is the same for both so it is actually just a single post that's appearing twice for some reason. The main issue with this is that reading either occurrence of the post partially marks one of the posts as read, but doesn't clear it from the new posts listing, while the other occurrence never gets marked as read at all. Even going into the folder itself and clicking mark as read for the whole folder doesn't fix it. Ignoring the folder does cause it to not show up in the new posts lists anymore, but that's not a solution.

I also switched to legacy view to see if it was any different there, and it is only appearing once in the list there and using mark as read clears it from the list properly. I.e. the post isn't buggy in legacy view, but is buggy in threaded view.

Here's some images:

http://oi67.tinypic.com/1588tjn.jpg
This first one is the post showing up twice in the folder. Notice that the first occurrence is at the very top of the list and the second occurrence is the fifth one down.

http://i63.tinypic.com/ett85s.jpg
This second image is showing the "Show New Threads, All Categories and Topics" view. The first one shows up as read, while the second one shows up as unread. This never changes despite any attempts at marking as read.



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Re: Buggy post 06/20/2016 11:33 PM CDT
I sent this post on to the Forums folks. They can't seem to recreate the bug.

Are you still seeing this? Anybody else?

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Re: Buggy post 06/21/2016 12:21 AM CDT
<<Are you still seeing this?

Yes. I first saw the issue on my laptop using Chrome. I'm still seeing on my desktop with Chrome, as well as with Microsoft Edge which I never use except to test stuff like this with. I also see it on my phone with mobile Chrome. I cleared my cache and logged out and back in to no effect.



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Re: Buggy post 06/21/2016 01:47 AM CDT
<<Anybody else?

I decided to test this using a F2P account, and everything is working correctly for that account. This makes me think that something went wrong with the mark as read function for this account specifically, and that I'm probably the only one seeing the issue.



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Re: Buggy post 06/21/2016 07:50 AM CDT
Update:

DR-PERSIDA has now posted in the thread and this issue remains. Using this account only, I am now seeing two copies of the full threads show up in the new threads list and the forum index that are not possible to mark as read although one appears marked as read. It also appears to be marked as read by the system when reading the opened thread itself, since the 'Mark as read' text at the top is not a link.

I tried posting in the thread myself to see if it would do anything, to no avail. My own post showed up in both occurrences in the new threads listing. Deleting my post did nothing as well.



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Re: Buggy post 07/06/2016 11:00 PM CDT
I don't know if on-site did anything, but this buggy post has finally been fixed as of sometime in the last 8 hours.

If it was an intentional fix then thanks! If not then happy circumstance!



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