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Forum: Site Announcements
Thread (Discussion): Bug fix - menu items when viewing main Forums page
Message 134744
Posted by steve
on May 25, 2004 01:24 PM | Also by steve
| Gender: Male,
Age Bracket: 30 - 39,
State: Virginia,
Country: United States |
I fixed a bug that caused the following problems *some* of the time when viewing the main Forums page:
1. Showed Login link when should have showed Logout link and vice versa.
2. Showed no Private Messages for logged in users and vice versa.
3. Showed an incorrect Unread Messages count next to Private Messages.
These situations were the result of users being shown a cached (copy) version of the page instead of it being generated in real-time. In a nutshell, the page was only generated when the copy on the server was more than 5 minutes old in order to reduce load on the server. Since the menu is user-specific it meant that the situations described above could occcur. The page is still being cached since it takes a lot of load off the server and the only downside of doing so is that the information on the page could be a few minutes old, but the menu is now being generated in real-time for each user.
Thanks to the 5 or so users who contacted me privately about this problem. Though I was aware of the issue, that's not always the case so I encourage users to contact me when they come across a problem.
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