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post #1 of 15
6/30/09 at 12:56pm
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I know several of you, including myself, have noticed that your post count has gone down. When we lost a lot of the posts with our forum awhile back and we migrated to a newer version your post count didn't change even after those posts were lost.

The post count that is showing up now reflects the actual number of posts that you have on the forum from all the posts you have made. With our other software those counts were off.

We know this is bothersome to some but it is an accurate accounting of your posts where as the numbers on with vBulletin were off.

We apologize for the difference in the two software programs but rest assured that your count here is accurate.

Parker
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post #2 of 15
6/30/09 at 1:42pm
That explains things.  I had forgotten about the post count vagaries on the last software upgrade.

Thanks, Parker.
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post #3 of 15
7/1/09 at 7:05am
I'm just trying to understand this. Are you saying that I suddenly gained more than 1,000 posts at the last change?

That would mean some others gained thousands of posts at the last changeover and now have gone back to where they should have been.

Sounds a bit like house prices in Florida!   ;)  . . . .  dammit
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post #4 of 15
7/1/09 at 8:15am

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Originally Posted by Marianne View Post

I'm just trying to understand this. Are you saying that I suddenly gained more than 1,000 posts at the last change?

 


That's not how I understood the explanation.  Your post count was accurate before the previous software change . When that change happend a lot of posts were lost from the database, but not from the post count index.  So at that point your post count showed how many posts you used to have on the HTF, but not the number that remained in the actual database.  The number was too high, reflecting posts that had once existed but which had since been lost.  

When we went to this software, a new post index was created from the actual database, so our post counts now reflect the number of posts of ours that people can actually access and read, not the total number of messages we have posted to every iteration of the HTF since it was founded.  This is the number we would have had on the last day with the old software, had the index and database been kept synchronized.  (Plus whatever we've added since the new software went live.) 

Later,

Joe
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post #5 of 15
7/1/09 at 3:22pm
Whoa, Parker lost over 25,000 posts.
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post #6 of 15
7/1/09 at 6:23pm
You know, some forums don't give post counts directly but instead give a humorous title to the range in which one's post counts reside.  For example, the miata.net forum has the following ranges:  first through sixth gear, then "lost my brakes".
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post #7 of 15
7/1/09 at 7:46pm

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Originally Posted by Dennis Nicholls View Post

You know, some forums don't give post counts directly but instead give a humorous title to the range in which one's post counts reside.  For example, the miata.net forum has the following ranges:  first through sixth gear, then "lost my brakes".

And with that post, Dennis Nicholls "loses his brakes" with 7,000 posts. 
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post #8 of 15
7/1/09 at 8:39pm
You should have seen the plans I had to celebrate my 40,000th post, now, it'll be postponed for a few years.
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post #9 of 15
7/2/09 at 5:38am

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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun View Post

You should have seen the plans I had to celebrate my 40,000th post, now, it'll be postponed for a few years.

There is a gnashing of teeth across the land...




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post #10 of 15
7/2/09 at 7:51am
I found a solution to the lost posts!







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post #11 of 15
7/2/09 at 9:46am

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post #12 of 15
7/2/09 at 10:38am
Wow, I can't believe I've been here for 9 years but still have less than 900 posts.
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post #13 of 15
7/2/09 at 10:40am
Dan:  You either need to try clean living...

...or that just means you have a life. 
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post #14 of 15
7/2/09 at 11:52am

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Originally Posted by Marianne View Post

I found a solution to the lost posts!







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Cute.  I'm just going to take my lumps, I only lost a few hundred, most of which were probably inane observations about the world.
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post #15 of 15
7/2/09 at 9:27pm

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon View Post



There is a gnashing of teeth across the land...




 

I might be able to squeeze that into the festivities whenever it finally happens.
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