Notice of New Reply email

FYI for Matt and company. I received an email notification that a reply was posted to a subject, in this instance it was:

"Enough about coding!" thread

However, when I clicked on the email notification link, I got:

Error- No thread with id of 519 available

this has happened about 3 times in the last 6 weeks or so.

Just thought you'd like to know.

maybe threads got moved to other forums?

Possible.

I did a general search under "forum" for "Enough about coding", it didn't show as a subject heading, problem here is that a lot of threads that got moved now show as "moved" in the subject.

This makes it tough and very time consuming to search for a thread that was moved. You'd have to know the specific forum and date it was moved, otherwise you have to open every post with Subject: Moved under the forum you "think" you remember it as being under.

Try a search for it and you'll see what I mean.

If I may make a small suggestion, when SU's or admins move a post, maybe they could leave the subject line with its original title, this way it would be much easier to search for a moved thread.

Just a suggestion.

Why is the thread given a new id if it's moved?

Here's the "Enough about coding" thread. It's subject was never changed, and when moving a thread, there is no option to rename it.

Does searching the forum look in the thread subjects, or just the content of the posts?

Thanks Honcho,

Maybe the Admin's have an answer to the number issue.



Take a look at the 2nd and last post for the thread, where the Subject is suppose to go, it has "Message Moved" instead of the subject. But curiosly it reverts back to the proper subject heading (look at post 3) when someone posts again.

So if you do a search after the thread's moved, but before someone post again (or in my case it was moved after a post but before I could read it), your search results show "Message Moved"

It should be looking at subjects as well as body content. I will look into that...

As for the threadid changing....that is a "feature" of this forum. Each forum has its own thread count...so moving forums adjusts the threadid to the next available for that forum....

I agree that it would be better to have a threadid pool for the entire forums, but that sort of change isn't something I feel like tackling anytime soon

I realize the subject for the post is "Message Moved", but the subject for the entire thread is unchanged (as far as I can tell it is always the same as the subject for the original post in that thread).



Nice "feature". Using an id as a count is a gross mis-use of what a unique id is for. I know it's not your fault, but that's a pet peeve of mine. I've had some applications where I was really tempted to just randomize the ids so that even if one was ever seen, it wouldn't even look like it meant something.

Not necessarily. Try a search using the search function in the header of the site.

Use "Enough about coding" for your search criteria.

Notice all the "Message Moved" results as the subject.