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Jan 27^th, 2014 at 1:38pm

I posted to NBN progress?, but the post failed to appear. I noticed that the last post that displays is #929 but, when I hover the pointer over the last post in the Politicians Suck index, the tooltip shows #928. The 'Replies" column also shows 928. Investigating further, I find that there is a post before mine that doesn't display.

I couldn't find anything in the help resources. By the way, http://www.codex.yabbforum.com/, which is the link from this site's help page, didn't work. The link in the YaBB site is http://www.yabbforum.com/codex/.

I presume there's a limit to the size of topics. If that's so, then could this topic be split (say, at post #800)? Unless someone has a better idea, of course.

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perceptions_now Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 11694 Perth WA Gender:	Re: Limit to size of a topic? Reply #1 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 1:50pm It MAY be mixed up with the following "known bug" or not, as the case may be. However, on this occasion there were actually 3 posts banked up, until I gave them a little Bump, (3 of them in fact), which will eventually pop up up. http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1366968207/all
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Reply #2 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 2:49pm

# wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 1:38pm:

I posted to NBN progress?, but the post failed to appear. I noticed that the last post that displays is #929 but, when I hover the pointer over the last post in the Politicians Suck index, the tooltip shows #928. The 'Replies" column also shows 928. Investigating further, I find that there is a post before mine that doesn't display.

I couldn't find anything in the help resources. By the way, http://www.codex.yabbforum.com/, which is the link from this site's help page, didn't work. The link in the YaBB site is http://www.yabbforum.com/codex/.

I presume there's a limit to the size of topics. If that's so, then could this topic be split (say, at post #800)? Unless someone has a better idea, of course.

Have you not seen the many *bump* *flip* * *F* *1* *2* posts I, and others have made to get the page to flip?

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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 62391 Here Gender:	Re: Limit to size of a topic? Reply #3 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:03pm I normally let the next post bump by surprise and I have learned that it is good to sometimes just let it go.
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Reply #4 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:32pm

perceptions_now wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 1:50pm:

It MAY be mixed up with the following "known bug" or not, as the case may be.

However, on this occasion there were actually 3 posts banked up, until I gave them a little Bump, (3 of them in fact), which will eventually pop up up.

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1366968207/all

Thanks. I thought that only happened with one post. When I saw another banked up, I thought it must be something else.

Maybe the bug is growing.

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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39957 Gender:	Re: Limit to size of a topic? Reply #5 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:34pm Dnarever wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:03pm: I normally let the next post bump by surprise and I have learned that it is good to sometimes just let it go. None of us need have to do anything. I have never seen this happen on any other Forum. Come on FD......it is fixable.
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Reply #6 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:36pm

# wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 3:32pm:

perceptions_now wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 1:50pm:

It MAY be mixed up with the following "known bug" or not, as the case may be.

However, on this occasion there were actually 3 posts banked up, until I gave them a little Bump, (3 of them in fact), which will eventually pop up up.

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1366968207/all

Thanks. I thought that only happened with one post. When I saw another banked up, I thought it must be something else.

Maybe the bug is growing.

Been doing that for a while - think it has something to do with page changes but it does not relate to number of posts - some very short topics can suffer as well, just adds to the fun.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 53422 At my desk.	Re: Limit to size of a topic? Reply #7 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 8:31pm Sounds like the known bug that Perce linked to. It is a server problem.
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39957 Gender:	Re: Limit to size of a topic? Reply #8 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 8:34pm freediver wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 8:31pm: Sounds like the known bug that Perce linked to. It is a server problem. Get another server, then.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 53422 At my desk.	Re: Limit to size of a topic? Reply #9 - Jan 27^th, 2014 at 10:33pm Thanks for the free advice Aussie.
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 39957 Gender:	Re: Limit to size of a topic? Reply #10 - Jan 28^th, 2014 at 9:55am freediver wrote on Jan 27^th, 2014 at 10:33pm: Thanks for the free advice Aussie. You're more than welcome freediver.
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