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I am catching up on the last two weeks of DW using the reading-list-by-date option, and it is doing weird things. The sort of weird things that make me doubt my reality. I have noticed this before when doing long catch-ups, but have never been awake enough at the time to be quite certain it's real.
Basically, I am paranoid that I am missing posts from people.
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denise's post on pseudonymity? I saw that because someone else on my list linked to it, I don't remember seeing it come up on the list. Which could be just the fact that I do, inevitably, skim a little bit, even when I'm not meaning to, and I could be skim-missing posts that I really, really would rather not.
But.
Then there is this: I go to a day, and then I skip to the beginning of that day's personal-journal posts until I am no longer given an option to go to previous 20 posts; this usually lands me at skip=40 or skip=60. Usually, this oldest page has substantially fewer than 20 posts in it - presumably because the number of posts in a day is not evenly divisible by 20, fine. But then, when I get to the last page in the day, which should show the most recent 20 posts, there is a certain amount of overlap with the previous page, the skip=20 one.
This confuses me. Okay, there is overlap because the posts aren't evenly divisible by 20! But... we took care of that with the first page being less than 20. I am confused. But I can deal; there's some weird stuff going on behind the scenes, fine.
But then! The problem is, the overlap isn't complete. For example, I just finished the page http://melannen.dreamwidth.org/read?show=p&skip=20&date=2011-08-07 , and am moving on to the page http://melannen.dreamwidth.org/read?show=p&date=2011-08-07 . Currently, there is a post by copperbadge 8 from the top of the skip=20 page. That same post by copperbadge is the bottom post on the skip=0 page. However, on skip=20, the next 8 posts are (encoded for privacy): n1, j1, j2, l1, d1, d2, s1, l2. On skip=0, the posts following the copperbadge post are l1 and s1, and n1, j1, j2, d1, d2, and l2 do not appear at all on that page.
This confuses me lots. And it's not just those pages: it's happening on most of the days. I would ask you guys to go and see if the same thing happens to you on those pages, but I don't think they would look the same to anyone not logged in as me. However, I can ask: has anyone noticed this same issue and can back me up? Is it a known bug?
There is no obvious pattern to which posts get skipped in the overlap (locked/unlocked, cut/not cut, certain users always, etc.) but I haven't looked too deeply. I'm mainly paranoid that there are other random posts getting skipped, and I'm only noticing the overlapped ones.
(I will clean this up and post to Support about it, probably, once I've come to the end of my backlog, I just wanted to document it now in case I forget. And hopefully get somebody confirming that it's not just me imagining things, or just my deeply broken style that I still haven't fixed.)
Basically, I am paranoid that I am missing posts from people.
Like
denise's post on pseudonymity? I saw that because someone else on my list linked to it, I don't remember seeing it come up on the list. Which could be just the fact that I do, inevitably, skim a little bit, even when I'm not meaning to, and I could be skim-missing posts that I really, really would rather not.But.
Then there is this: I go to a day, and then I skip to the beginning of that day's personal-journal posts until I am no longer given an option to go to previous 20 posts; this usually lands me at skip=40 or skip=60. Usually, this oldest page has substantially fewer than 20 posts in it - presumably because the number of posts in a day is not evenly divisible by 20, fine. But then, when I get to the last page in the day, which should show the most recent 20 posts, there is a certain amount of overlap with the previous page, the skip=20 one.
This confuses me. Okay, there is overlap because the posts aren't evenly divisible by 20! But... we took care of that with the first page being less than 20. I am confused. But I can deal; there's some weird stuff going on behind the scenes, fine.
But then! The problem is, the overlap isn't complete. For example, I just finished the page http://melannen.dreamwidth.org/read?show=p&skip=20&date=2011-08-07 , and am moving on to the page http://melannen.dreamwidth.org/read?show=p&date=2011-08-07 . Currently, there is a post by copperbadge 8 from the top of the skip=20 page. That same post by copperbadge is the bottom post on the skip=0 page. However, on skip=20, the next 8 posts are (encoded for privacy): n1, j1, j2, l1, d1, d2, s1, l2. On skip=0, the posts following the copperbadge post are l1 and s1, and n1, j1, j2, d1, d2, and l2 do not appear at all on that page.
This confuses me lots. And it's not just those pages: it's happening on most of the days. I would ask you guys to go and see if the same thing happens to you on those pages, but I don't think they would look the same to anyone not logged in as me. However, I can ask: has anyone noticed this same issue and can back me up? Is it a known bug?
There is no obvious pattern to which posts get skipped in the overlap (locked/unlocked, cut/not cut, certain users always, etc.) but I haven't looked too deeply. I'm mainly paranoid that there are other random posts getting skipped, and I'm only noticing the overlapped ones.
(I will clean this up and post to Support about it, probably, once I've come to the end of my backlog, I just wanted to document it now in case I forget. And hopefully get somebody confirming that it's not just me imagining things, or just my deeply broken style that I still haven't fixed.)