Support Forum

Advanced Search
Forum Scope


Match



Forum Options



Minimum search word length is 3 characters - maximum search word length is 84 characters
plugins-topic
Recent Forum Posts widget!
Avatar
Mr Papa
Simi Valley, CA
SP Master
Free Members
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 20, 2017 - 1:13 am

removed for who? you as admin?

looking back (and not seeing it), have you provided us a link where we can check this out?  vice a picture... and compare to your settings...

and just to be sure, what was removed?  remember, its a recent topics with posts display, so if you get a new post in a topic, that topic will only be shown once... not once per post...

Avatar
Apopas
Member
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 20, 2017 - 1:19 pm

I'm talking about the widget.

I have provided details and pictures in post 12 of the current thread.

Avatar
Mr Papa
Simi Valley, CA
SP Master
Free Members
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 20, 2017 - 11:24 pm

pictures dont really help...   we need to inspect the html and browser window for more info...  plus the images seem to have been removed..

Avatar
Apopas
Member
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 21, 2017 - 9:45 am

So what do you need me to do?

Avatar
Mr Papa
Simi Valley, CA
SP Master
Free Members
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 21, 2017 - 11:42 pm

was hoping for a link to your site...  and an answer to question in post #31...  just making sure you arent expecting multiple posts from the same topic...

Avatar
Hari
Member
Free Members
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 22, 2017 - 7:05 am

Just as an additional hint. I am referring to the changes I did and described in post 17. I said, I will wait some time and report back later. Result:

The number of posts shown via widget has increased over time, since I set the changes as explained in post 17.

As of today I have 48 posts shown via widget and the last one is 6 days old, so the backlog has increased. But there are still not 50 as set, just 48.

I guess the interdependency to these parameters does exist, the change in behaviour is obvious after I increased the cache for example.

But I am happy with the current status, the "missing 2-of-50" are no big deal and not worth further analysis from my side.

Avatar
Mr Papa
Simi Valley, CA
SP Master
Free Members
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 22, 2017 - 11:07 pm

understand... still thoroughly confused as we cannot replicate either of this which is why we keep requesting more data....

Avatar
Hari
Member
Free Members
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 23, 2017 - 6:15 pm

Today it became 50 as it should be. But we are now on the evening of day 4 of a busy week with lots of posts in multiple threads. If the problem persists, the count will go down over the weekend again. Will report after the weekend. Maybe the number in the cache (Post 17) is the cause and solution at the same time.

My humble theory, maybe it helps:

The Cache must be big enough, to contain at least the requested number as different threads (topics as you call it).

So if one sets the widget to 50 and has the cache at 100, it would only work, if most of the threads have just 1-2 posts.

Now lets imagine, the cache is 100, but the last 80 posts were part just of *one* thread (topic). And before that, there were 20 posts in another thread.

In that scenario, there would be just 2 entries displayed in the widget, as the cache contains 100 posts, but just 2 threads!

Just a theory.

Avatar
Mr Papa
Simi Valley, CA
SP Master
Free Members
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 23, 2017 - 11:16 pm

cache?? are you using a widgets cache plugin??  we dont cache anything there...

Avatar
Yellow Swordfish
Glinton, England
SP Master
sp_UserOfflineSmall Offline
Mar 24, 2017 - 3:57 am

@mr-papa - Hari is referring to our topic cache and I think he may well have a valid point.

If you think of Apopas with his small number of topics - even with a big topic cache it is entirely possible that only a small pool of those topics get a new post.

As an example it is feasible - but rare and mostly unlikely -  that a topic cache of, say 100, might still only yield a unique count of only 5 or 6 if there are few topics in the forum that receive a large number of posts. Rare and most unusual. All you could do here would be to up the topic cache size.

andy-signature.png
YELLOW
SWORDFISH
Forum Timezone: Europe/Stockholm
Most Users Ever Online: 1170
Currently Online:
Guest(s) 1
Currently Browsing this Page:
1 Guest(s)
Top Posters:
Mr Papa: 19448
Ike: 2086
Brandon: 864
kvr28: 804
jim: 650
FidoSysop: 577
Conrad_Farlow: 531
fiddlerman: 358
Stefano Prete: 325
Member Stats:
Guest Posters: 619
Members: 17362
Moderators: 0
Admins: 4
Forum Stats:
Groups: 7
Forums: 17
Topics: 10127
Posts: 79625