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Double-posting freeze-up

Ganesh

12:30 / 14.07.04

It's happened the last three times I've posted on the Big Brother thread. I press 'Submit', a go-slow ensues, the Barbelith screen appears shattered into lines of code. Refreshing clears it all, but I find I've posted twice.

Anyone else having these hassles lately?

sleazenation

12:39 / 14.07.04

I guess one way of avoiding this is if in doubt open the tread up in a new window and see if your new post is there...

pointless and uncalled for

13:39 / 14.07.04

This often happens when a thread exceedes 3 or 4 pages, particularly at high user periods.

Spatula Clarke

16:10 / 14.07.04

sleaze's suggestion is a good one. More often than not, the post has been submitted when the freeze occurs, but you've got no way of knowing. If you're freezing on the post reply screen, you might also want to make sure that you copy the contents of your new post. That way, if there is a cock-up you prevent yourself from having to rewrite everything.

I've got my own little Barbelith-specific posting routine now. Clunk, click, whirr.

Ganesh

18:00 / 14.07.04

Opening a new window is generally what I do do. The last couple of times, however, I seem to have double-posted despite this ie. a single press of Post Reply produces two posts.

Grey Area

20:27 / 14.07.04

I've also noticed that these kind of things seem to be happening more and more often, especially once, as Seldom points out, threads grow beyond the 3 to 4 page size. Are we outgrowing our swapfile or something?

Tom Coates

07:30 / 16.07.04

God only knows to be honest. I need to look into our hosting, because it's clearly deteriorating in quality and it costs a fortune.

pointless and uncalled for

12:31 / 16.07.04

Is there anyway you an instigate an automatic division of long running threads in the conversation.

I shouldn't imagine that it would disrupt too much.

sleazenation

12:57 / 16.07.04

it seems to happen more to threads that grow massive over mere days rather than over years tho...

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