Comments on: MetaTalk Comments Bug

MetaTalk Comments Bug

matthewr — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:27:49 -0800

Bug: Try going to a user's MetaTalk comments page (example).

If you click on the page numbers at the bottom, offsets don't seem to work. Therefore, clicking on page 10 should return comments 451-500, but actually returns comments 1-500. Presumably, if everyone who sees this clicks on page 109, and therefore requests all 5437 comments, the world will explode.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:31:15 -0800

it's a known bug - was pointed out last just a week or so ago, but i have no idea how you search for it, either.

By: matthewr

matthewr — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:31:49 -0800

Doesn't happen for MeFi comments, but does for AskMe answers, as far as I can tell.

By: matthewr

matthewr — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:32:29 -0800

it's a known bug

Sorry about that, guys.

By: cribcage

cribcage — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:32:35 -0800

This has been the case for my AskMe answers for...well, as long as I can remember. Much longer than a few weeks, anyhow.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:35:58 -0800

Yes, it's a months-old bug I'll get to fixing in the next week or so. I'm doing about 20 other small things but I'll definitely rewrite the user history pages soon (and add projects to history as well).

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:49:29 -0800

[redundant expression of thanks for all the work on the site]

By: matthewr

matthewr — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:59:00 -0800

ditto.

By: cribcage

cribcage — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:16:40 -0800

Hey, I know the "bug = feature" mantra is an old joke around here; but seriously, I think this particullar "bug" is great. If I'm browsing through my old comments, it's because I'm looking for a specific thread; and the quickest means of finding that thread is to hit Command-F and search for a word or phrase. If all my comments (from forever) appear on the same page, I only have to do that once.

By: matthewr

matthewr — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:34:37 -0800

For users with comments aplenty (eg #1), surely this cooks the server.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:03:13 -0800

I doubt it, because that was the default until recently.

By: marxchivist

marxchivist — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:10:15 -0800

if everyone who sees this clicks on page 109, and therefore requests all 5437 comments, the world will explode.

Oh bullshit, everyone knows it will cause the universe to collapse on itself.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:35:23 -0800

Another small thing: if you posted in an AskMe thread that was later disappeared, say one about someone's blind girlfriend's sister's bun in the oven, it still shows up under My Comments.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:05:58 -0800

Ah, that explains why I have 30 more AskMe comments in My Comments than are tallied on my userpage. I was wondering.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:36:51 -0800

I'd like to second cribcage's comment. Matt, if you do "fix" this, any chance you could at least add an "all on one page" link?