['feature' for now] When moving a message, "last post" returns erroneous details...

[James Cridland]

I think my user explains it (http://forums.mediauk.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9071) much better than I can...


Looking down the Radio Chatter list and noticed I was the last person to write on the "Big Changes @ Radio One" thread. Couldn't remember what I had written (it was two hours ago!) but as is my want I keep hitting the name (ie my name) rather than the "last post" hyperlink.

Got scared when it said average 4.5 posts a day (I'm not that sad, surely!) then realised it was Bob Fazlali's details. Err?

Tried again and sure did happen.

Realised that whilst I was the last person to post whilst the topic was in Radio Chatter, Bob was the last person to post when it was moved to Radio Stations (a different forum). So whilst it displays my name on the "last post" when you click on my name it gives you Bob Fazlali's details.

Thought it must be just that Bob had posted his message in between the time I opened the menu page and hit the hyperlink, but no - refreshed the page (and went back up a level and back) and still I am Bob Fazlali.

This is a bug and I want it fixed - otherwise I'll sue for defamation of character (I only post 0.71 a day).

[John]

This will remain a 'feature' for now until we start cacheing the userid of the lastposter (next major version). The large SQL queries to get the last poster become unmanageable and too slow on large forums.

John

[John]

Note to self/devs:

Possibly include $viewtime variable on the URL, so as to select which user the query should pick up. ie add lastpost<$viewtime into query. Implications to SQL performance...

John