Hot Threads This Week

[jimji]

I tried the search tool here, but didn't see the question, as best as I could ascertain.

What I am seeing under that listing are threads that seem a tad old. May 2022 is really a hot thread for this week? Or last week? And I went to the thread and then was sent to another thread and that latest post was maybe June 2022.

I'm just wondering if my own system is messed up or something and not showing me what it should be. Just checking, I guess. I mean, if you admin folks want it set up like that, no big deal for me. But it does seem a tad odd.

Maybe I should get a screen grab, just in case. I'll do that after I post this, in case someone wants to see what I am seeing.

[engine]

Yup, the widget has had problems, however, if you click through on the link at the top of the widget it'll show you the current "hot threads"

[jimji]

Got it. Thank you.

[explorador]

For some time the hot threads this week made me sad, thinking the forum was almost dead with no activity, but turns out it's a bug or something like that. Mine is still showing the same "hot threads" from may 2022.

As far as I remember, the forum is built using Perl, perhaps this is related to the old... known... issues or Perl & Date and Time. For some time in the past developing some server tool I had issues with it (avoiding modules), and once I thought I got it running, it would surprise me over and over with bugs, then I moved to try some Perl modules, it's not exactly perfect yet.

[not2easy]

Yes, Brett has spent a lot of time trying to get that to work again. Suggestions can help, thank you!

As mentioned above, you can click on the "Hot Threads This Week" button to see the actual current list.

[explorador]

not2easy: Yes, Brett has spent a lot of time trying to get that to work again. Suggestions can help, thank you!

I see, it's quite difficult to share an opinion without knowing what's the specific problem, or how the code is built. In my personal experience, I did have bugs on date & time behaving differently on local dev environments, and even among real Linux servers providing hosting.

Other than that, I see clicking on the link [webmasterworld.com...] shows the hot threads this week correctly, quite different to what the sidebar is showing. I'm not saying this is the best approach, but having code that works over there:

1. The same code could be inside a function that could be called from the sidebar
2. The same code could save a cache version in order for the sidebar to load (without execution exactly), it could even be a server side include