Posts show up twice.

Bottom of thread, then also at the top of the next page. Why?

[Jesse_Smith]

Why does a post that's at the bottom of a thread page, also show up at the top of the next page?
Example: Last post [webmasterworld.com] and First post [webmasterworld.com] are the same post.

[Brett_Tabke]

It's a quirk of the software :-) and I like it :-)

It is kind of a place holder for where you were at.

[g1smd]

I wish the software marked a bigger number of the threads listed in the index that I have already participated in.

Some forums mark all threads, going back to the very beginning, that way, but here only the last couple of dozen threads that I have participated in, are marked at all.

[vrtlw]

From what I have noticed, and it may only be coincidence it occurs when I edit a post that is at the bottom of the page. The edited post has then appeared in the original position and then on the new page.

[Brett_Tabke]

> g1smd

I do too. I've looked and looked at ways of increasing it (actually tracking ALL your posts forever), but there is no way to do it without extreme system load. The problem is that it must check to see if those threads still exists...etc etc and all that file checking takes alot of time.

[g1smd]

I see. It seems to be a standard feature in vbulletin.

However, I do know that the forums I use that use vbulletin all have less than 10% of the visitors that WW has, so perhaps it doesn't scale well for larger and more popular sites like this one. The largest site has a total of 210 000 posts across all forums, so far.

[Brett_Tabke]

>standard feature

Yep, although our flat file system has many perks, a good old SQL db is better at mass searching.

On the other hand, we can handle between 5 to 10 times the system load that any vbulletin system can :-)