Never mind, I figgered it out. Thanks ita.
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Ailleann - Dec 06, 2005 4:45:01 pm PST #787 of 4673
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Jesse - Dec 07, 2005 11:16:33 am PST #788 of 4673
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I heart the message I got when I tried to post in the closed thread. Cute and nice.
Just like us.
DXMachina - Dec 07, 2005 11:24:09 am PST #789 of 4673
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I thought we fixed the thing where people could still post in a thread that hit 10,000.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2005 11:25:54 am PST #790 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, me too. I'm going to have to look into that.
Tom Scola - Dec 07, 2005 11:27:48 am PST #791 of 4673
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Again, it's a race condition. New posts can arrive concurrently during the time that you're verifiying that your own post # is less than 10000. You can't completely prevent it short of locking the database while you check. Which would slow the board down considerably.
DXMachina - Dec 07, 2005 11:33:13 am PST #792 of 4673
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
But they didn't really arrive concurrently. 10,005 was posted 13 seconds after 10,000.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2005 11:34:23 am PST #793 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
New posts can arrive concurrently during the time that you're verifiying that your own post # is less than 10000.
That's not the race, though. As part of the 10000th post going through, the thread header is flagged with "closed." The checking happens when the next post is trying to be written, and if that flag has flipped, no go.
And it used to be much tighter, I swear. The time stamps on those post-10000 posts are pretty far apart.
If that's all taking 13 seconds, something's up somewhere...
DXMachina - Dec 07, 2005 11:36:35 am PST #794 of 4673
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
And it used to be much tighter, I swear.
It was. I've only seen it go over once since you implemented it, and that was a single extra post.
eta: Okay looking at the closed threads list shows a couple three threads that have an extra post, and the gap on a couple of them is 5 or six seconds.
aurelia - Dec 07, 2005 3:00:43 pm PST #795 of 4673
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Does the search function only work on the text of posts? Or is it possible to search for posts by user name?
Experimentation seems to indicate a no on the 2nd question.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 07, 2005 11:49:59 pm PST #796 of 4673
What is even happening?
You can sort of play with your terms, so that you're more likely to find a post made by a certain user name though, aurelia. Look at the top of a post. See how they're always [username]space[hyphen]space[date]?
If I were to search for a post you made, to minimize the number of hits on posts by other people, which just contained your name, I would enter: your name, then a space, then a hyphen, then another space in the search field, like this:
aurelia -
That should cut down on the number of times I come across your name in posts. Most of the hits I get should be entries posted by you.