"Go to First New Post" Button not working

[thatbloke]

When I come to the forums, I click the "New Posts" button, which then gives me a list of changed threads since my last visit. I will then use the little arrow icon that appears to the left of the thread title to go to the new post within that thread.

However, as of this morning, that little icon has instead started taking me to the start of threads instead of the actual new post.

Using the latest Firefox...

 

[Traxata]

Same here. Using latest Chrome.

Not expecting this to be fixed if we're moving software systems though.

 

[Ronin Storm]

That makes totally no sense. It's just an image with a link on it. Is it that you're reading single page threads and the bookmark isn't working? If you visit a multi-page thread, does it go to the top of the current page?

 

[bacon]

It's even weirder for me.

On the "GAME in trouble?" thread whenever there's a new post the link is always taking me to post #49 which was the first post this morning.

The link is

http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=20854

and it redirects to

http://games.thehavennet.org.uk/showthread.php?p=129422#post129422

It does however remove the thread from the "New Posts" list when I then click onto the last page so it sounds like it's not updating part of the database.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Yep, okay, I'm getting strange responses in this style now too. I think this is one for Haven to take a quick look at because I'm not sure if/what has changed to cause this.

 

[Haven]

Yep, okay, I'm getting strange responses in this style now too. I think this is one for Haven to take a quick look at because I'm not sure if/what has changed to cause this.

*suspects cookies and caching*

Will take a look once I get a moment.

 

[bacon]

It's doing the same again today but the post it jumps to now is the first one from this morning. Hope that helps

 

[Ronin Storm]

Yeah, it strongly indicates a results caching issue, but only for a particular aspect of the query or result. Rather than beat my head against it, if Haven has a good idea for a quick thing then we'll do that. If not, we'll be tearing it all out before too long. I just need to move house, first, so it'll be 3ish weeks yet.

 

[Haven]

It's doing the same again today but the post it jumps to now is the first one from this morning. Hope that helps

Made a quick change to varnish (explicitly excluding cookies from caching). Let me know if thats helped.

I suspect my section:

    # Cleanup http.cookie:
    if (!req.http.cookie) {
       unset req.http.cookie;
    }

Is not quite doing what I expected.

 

[bacon]

Let me know if thats helped.

Seems to.

 

[thatbloke]

Seems to.

ditto

 

[Ronin Storm]

Seems like it may have helped, but I also imagine varnish has restarted (even implicitly) so I'll keep an eye over the next 24 hours.

That said, also seems to have fixed it. Thanks elOverlord!

 

[Panda with issues...]

I had this issue last night with the Blood Bowl thread, just to keep you informed.

 

[Ronin Storm]

I had this issue last night with the Blood Bowl thread, just to keep you informed.

Shout if you get it again from now.

 

[bacon]

Possibly related but I'm now seeing a post in my new posts list but not seeing any orange icons on the homepage.

(edit -- Although that may be related to it being a poll vote rather than a new post so you can ignore that)

 

[Ronin Storm]

Poll votes are a bit weird and another area that vBulletin is peculiarly inconsistent. If you watch for them, it's full of oddities.