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EnterOrion
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For about half the threads I come across, maybe a little more, when I click the 'Last Post' part it goes to a blank page with nothing on it.

Now, before you say it's just another glitch and I should just deal with it, I believe I found the cause.

For instance, on the Weekly Poetry Contest, when I click Last Post, it normally (at least for me) shows a page that has all of the pages (228 in this instance), but not an actual page of posts. This has always been happening to me, so it's no big deal. However, the URL gives me this: http://armorgames.com/community/thread/1780888/weekly-poetry-contest-theme-mountains-page-225/page/261#post-5715496. Note how it shows page 261, instead of 228. However, if I alter the link to http://armorgames.com/community/thread/1780888/weekly-poetry-contest-theme-mountains-page-225/page/228#post-5715496, it shows up fine.

I'm sure someone else has noticed this before, just I've never seen a thread on it.

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ulimitedpower
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The bug was gone for a bit after they closed the forum down for serious repairs. It looks like the system has a deeply hidden bug that changes these numbers (Perhaps because it is very old).

Normally I'd say 'deal with it' but you just kindly pointed out the problem was in the link. The admins probably know, but that helps users...

I hope the forums will be differently coded in AG 3.0 to avoid this problem.

sonicheroes95
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it's because some posts got removed. when posts are removed, the fact they're aren't their doesn't apply when last post goes to the page, so it shows a blank page.

EnterOrion
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it's because some posts got removed. when posts are removed, the fact they're aren't their doesn't apply when last post goes to the page, so it shows a blank page.


That's the reason I used the Poetry Contest, because the gap is so wide. There is no way that 400 posts were removed to create that wide of a gap.
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it's because some posts got removed. when posts are removed, the fact they're aren't their doesn't apply when last post goes to the page, so it shows a blank page.


thats the most common cause i see anyway.
EnterOrion
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thats the most common cause i see anyway.


Hm, unless it originates the glitch, it just doesn't seem like that. The gaps for the most part are far too wide (dozens of pages in some cases) to be caused by deleting.
Holden012
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Fixed Link

^^ Is that the link??

This one does'nt show it

Umm It's a common glitch.

Holden012
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I believe this is what your talking about?
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/773/agglitch2.jpg

sonicheroes95
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no, thats a newer glitch, but i love it as i can warp to any page i want.

pHacon
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Well, is this anything like it?

http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/ad77/pHacon/Glitch.png

sonicheroes95
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yeah, cept first and last page buttons are usually visible.

EnterOrion
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Guys, you missed it.

I already knew about the glitch, and have for quite some time. I was proposing the cause of it, not reporting the glitch itself.

Link A with Glitch

Link B without Glitch

The cause is based around the URLs. The page number is screwed up for the last post feature.

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pH that glitch is kind of common throughout AG. It happened to me on that same thread though...

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