Minispy duplicates

[Brandon H Supervisor]

has anyone else noticed the minispy displaying a reply multiple times over the span of several minutes?

 

it's really rather annoying, i go to click back into a thread expecting new replies just to see it's the same post i saw 10, 15 minutes ago sometimes times that reply is being posted to the minispy again after longer amounts of time than even that

[Mystic Mungis]

Is that not caused by people editing their posts? Think I read that in a thread a while ago but I could be wrong. 

[Brandon H Supervisor]

can be but people don't edit their posts 8 times in the length of 20 minutes. plus there's been no visible change in the posts. i kept a tab open on a thread that was doing it to check that possibility

 

edit: another thing. it's doing it both while i'm at work & at home so it's not a browser or cookie thing
at work i'm on latest chrome on windows 7 while at home i'm on firefox beta on windows 8.1

[Mystic Mungis]

Ahh yeah, if it's that amount/frequency then it's definitely something else :P I've not noticed it but I'll keep an eye out and report back if I see it happening to me as well.

[+Raze Subscriber²]

You mean like this screenshot?   Then yes I do.

 

 

[Brandon H Supervisor]

and there it's doing it again.

 

George's post for this thread just popped up in the minispy again. that post was 4 hours ago

[Hum]

I think it may be a back up on the Servers -- it can't quite keep up with the busy flood of posts, at a given time.

Let's be glad Neowin works at all. ;)

[+Raze Subscriber²]

oops you said "mimispy".  I have seen it in the minispy also.

[Draconian Guppy]

Is that not caused by people editing their posts? Think I read that in a thread a while ago but I could be wrong. 

Yup

[LimeMaster]

I see that none of the admins or devs have acknowledged the issue yet! :o

[Steven P. Administrators]

There are a couple of reasons for duplicates:

 

a) the server is having a mini meltdown and is recovering (auto failsafes for that)

b) the time sync is too far apart between the webservers, resulting in duplicate entries

 

The spies will be updated when we eventually get around to updating the site, and the code for it will be checked and updated to compensate for the above (possible) issues.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

it seems to be doing it again with the "Anyone getting a Google Glass?" topic

 

just saw it pop up a couple times for a post from a few hours ago

 

 

[vanx]

It has also happened in the mini-spy recently as per below...


 

[Steven P. Administrators]

Confirmed.

 

[vanx]

Confirmed.

 

SNAG-0013.png

 

Is that a "cool, I can see it too" confirmed or "wow, that really should not be happening and I am going to whip the devs into shape about it" confirmed? 

[vanx]

Is it possible that there is something screwed up about that thread? It has popped up with a duplicate again:

[dipsylalapo Supervisor]

I think it's something to do with the thread. I have only seen the issue with the duplicate post with this thread only.