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Something strange happening with forum software?


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They've had some rather bizzare problems since they got the new BBS software a few months ago. I lost entire thread I started once. It turned out that it had an ID number that was later duplicated by another thread, so the BBS brought up the last thread under that ID. I'm starting to get the feeling that this only happens when there is heavy posting going on.

My programmer sense tells me that there is a timing/record locking issue somewhere in the BBS software and/or the database that stores the messages, so that when the traffic is heavy duplicate ID's are assigned occasionally. These types of bugs are really hard to find because they are very difficult to duplicate, BTW.

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