pointless question about replies/views

[tomtoc]

why does it show two different numbers in two different places?

pretty often in the control panel a thread will say "2/0" (which doesn't make sense)
but then on the actual forum page where the thread is listed it will say "2/4"

is one cached up? what's the difference? just curious.

 

[O'Rattlecan]

are you talking about the threads/posts column?

Ryan

 

[mrfixit]

Sounds like one is reversed from the other, doesn't it? Ryan, any ideas?

 

[tomtoc]

nope, the replies/views

threads/posts is on the forum section listing page

i'm talking about in a specific forum, the thread listings ...that replies/views vs the user cp set of replies/views

 

[tomtoc]

at this moment....
here http://www.fordtruckfanatics.com/forum/usercp.php it's 3/0
but here http://www.fordtruckfanatics.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=8 it's 3/4

EDIT: i'm an IT guy - this kind of stuff makes me wonder more than it should

 

[O'Rattlecan]

I am guessing here, because I'm no expert...

VBulletin is an interactive program that runs on our server. It's very much 'alive' at any given point. I believe that the software is designed to update those numbers every so often, but not instantaneously. So it'll 'cycle' through everything and add up the hits.

Ryan

 

[tomtoc]

makes sense "cached up" is the dorky term i guess. caches the views...at least on new threads.

spot checking, it looks like threads more than a couple hours old agree on both the user cp and the forum page, but newer threads are off.

obviously doesn't matter - am i the only one that notices?

 

[eco]

I asked this same question a whileback and didn't get much of an answer.

 

[O'Rattlecan]

can't give you a definate answer. I didn't write the software... That's my best guess.

Ryan

 

[tomtoc]

no problem - caching seems like a logical thing to do for the user cp