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In my PS, after posting, it showed the conversation to have '-1 new posts'. Also, the 'Lat Reply' remained at what it had been previously. Others don't seem to have this problem. What's happening?

I thought prehaps I was being moderated or something (although I really don't know why). So I checked my e-mail, but there was no email from the site.

What's going on?

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It is happening to everyone, don't worry

This morning's update has gone a bit wonky, basically ...

"This morning's update has gone a bit wonky, basically ..."

Again, don't worry it's a regular occurance when the servers are updated and repaired, it'll ssettle down in a couple of days........weeks

Actually, it seems to have got a *lot* better, just in the last few minutes

Thanks for the explanation!

You're right, everything seems to be pretty much normal again.

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Apparently, the improvement is because the 606 messageboards have just closed ... not quite 'fixed', then.

*ahem* it's a feature, not a problem with the update - it was designed to do this. There may be more 'official' news at some point. In fact, here's some...http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/F94020?thread=2270498

A feature, yes - but it was causing problems this afternoon: the slower refresh rate was dragging back to about an hour which meant there was no way of being aware of whether there were any actual new postings on any thread you were subscribed to.

Jim Lynn said it would be a couple of days before they could iron it out

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(And the next question - why is this thread showing up twice on my Convo list? )

" there was no way of being aware of whether there were any actual new postings on any thread you were subscribed to."

That's what the developers told us it was designed to do. I wasn't talking about the minus posts, sorry, just the delay in updating converstation lists.

I think it was just that the delay was longer than they thought it was going to be - It's absolutely fine now.

But when 606 comes back on tomorrow, I assume it's going to go funny again?

I think they anticipated half an hour at busy times, but I'm only going by 'casual' conversations in the office.

Really? It was pretty unworkable earlier today, no way of having a 'conversation' as such, because you couldn't tell whether anyone was replying.