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Originally Posted by
hicksd8
I'm still getting (what I think is) strange behaviour.
I log in, click on "New Topics" from the menu bar, it says "Sorry" there are none, etc, but then, if I don't touch anything (just let it sit there), it times-out after 10+ seconds and goes to the "Search Forums" page.
Is it supposed to do that? Or, again, I'm I doing something stupid?
Hey Dennis,
Thanks. The reason you were getting some delays is because the site was recently hit by some rogue A6-Index bots which sucked so much data per second that the load average on our mega server shot up to 50+.
This is kinda off topic related to the UI, so forgive me if I sound like a busy developer:
The "New Topics" function is the same PHP function as it has always been and has not changed and is not effected by UI CSS or related JS changes to the UI. "New Topics" is based on a user cookie and the time between your logins, and if there are no "New Topics" because of the timestamp in your cookie versus the time of any newer posts, then you will see a kind of redirection and it has been this way for 10 years, nothing has changed. There will also be issues if, for any reason, a browser has blocked a cookie or a cookie is not set properly due to a time-out or other network issue.
I rarely use "New Topics" for this reason, and I always use "Today's Posts" because this function is not cookie based, but it based on just the days new posts.
These PHP issues (core functionality) are not really UI related, so it should be in a different thread, but I'm trying not to sound like a developer (too much, LOL) who is being too technical.
To be clear, I have not made any changes to any underlying PHP code which effects any functions like search, or posting, etc. I am currently only working on code which effects the browser UI (CSS and Javascript manipulation of the DOM). This is already a monumental task, so I it does help me manage my developing time (which is very busy) if we stick to UI topics for in my UI threads.
Cheers.