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    I am curious about this. Every now and then I run across a situation where the "last post by" part of a thread on a forum list doesn't get updated. I hope it's not too confusing how I said that. It's happening for me now on the "What are you Reading" thread. On my computer/ipad/phone the last person who supposedly posted on the thread is listed as Nini and the title of the thread is highlighted on my list like I haven't read Nini's post. Thing is, there is a whole page of posts after Nini last posted including two that I wrote myself. Does anybody know what's up with that?
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    It seems to be the glitch where the first post on the next page doesn’t show up. It can usually be fixed by posting something, somehow that brings up the new post and the one that wasn’t showing. I’ve just tried it on the thread you mentioned and it worked, although not immediately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady Stardust View Post
    It seems to be the glitch where the first post on the next page doesn’t show up. It can usually be fixed by posting something, somehow that brings up the new post and the one that wasn’t showing. I’ve just tried it on the thread you mentioned and it worked, although not immediately.
    That's it.

    Since it's hard to get the glitch to show when we want to, the more technical mods haven't able to solve it. But it usually does work to post. When it happens for me I usually just writes "Posting to see if I can remove the glitch", or something like that


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    That has been a really tough one to replicate! We still aren't sure what caused it, which makes prevention tricky.

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    If someone notices it happening and reports the thread to a mod while its still happening instead of making it go away, would that help at all to be able to study the problem?
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    Quote Originally Posted by cat11 View Post
    If someone notices it happening and reports the thread to a mod while its still happening instead of making it go away, would that help at all to be able to study the problem?
    Maybe reporting the "hung" post would help? So not the first post on the thread?
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    Lady Stardust seems to have fixed it. It's strange, because I posted a couple times after Nina. I think though from what you all are saying - it has to get to the start of a new page to fix it. I will try that next time. It doesn't happen very often on the threads I read. I think this is only the second time I've seen it.
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    This has been a long-time bug in the board's software: a new post may not show up until the next post is made to the same thread. The cause has never been tracked down.

    If you encounter this bug, try to avoid posting again because that will result in a double-post.
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    This glitch is different from the occasional last post not showing. This can include multiple posts. I've only witnessed it once but I am positive it's not the same thing as the more common version.
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    Default Re: "Last Post By" is not getting updated

    Quote Originally Posted by Ylva View Post
    This glitch is different from the occasional last post not showing. This can include multiple posts. I've only witnessed it once but I am positive it's not the same thing as the more common version.
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