Timewarps - coincidence? I think not.

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JJChicken

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Its a little too convenient that fusetalk has developed the forum-breaking twarp bug just before we migrate over to vBulletin. How can the software go from working normally to all of a sudden developing a time warp bug? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Personally I think the mods are moving posts out of order and there is no timewarp bug. Gotta hand it to them, they've worked pretty hard to achieve this - its almost believable, ALMOST but a little too perfect.

Discuss.
 
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randomlinh

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this timewarp bug happened every time we had daylight savings. not sure why it wasn't fixed this time, maybe because of the move, maybe not. fusetalk blows anyway, I welcome a move to almost anything else.
 
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JJChicken

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Originally posted by: randomlinh
this timewarp bug happened every time we had daylight savings. not sure why it wasn't fixed this time, maybe because of the move, maybe not. fusetalk blows anyway, I welcome a move to almost anything else.
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really? I can't recall it happening last year or previous years?
 
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benzylic

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They timewarping is a vbulletin bug. The staff did a great job of making vbulletin look like fusetalk
 
Cuda1447

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Personally, I think the timewarp adds an extra element of strategy to ATOT.
 
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Crono

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Those mods are fast if they can manually "time warp" posts milliseconds after posts.
 
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her209

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I've seen time warping happen in the past. It wasn't very often but it did happen.
 
moshquerade

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Originally posted by: Barack Obama
Its a little too convenient that fusetalk has developed the forum-breaking twarp bug just before we migrate over to vBulletin. How can the software go from working normally to all of a sudden developing a time warp bug? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Personally I think the mods are moving posts out of order and there is no timewarp bug. Gotta hand it to them, they've worked pretty hard to achieve this - its almost believable, ALMOST but a little too perfect.

Discuss.
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shirley you can't be serious
 
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dudeman007

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Barack Obama
Its a little too convenient that fusetalk has developed the forum-breaking twarp bug just before we migrate over to vBulletin. How can the software go from working normally to all of a sudden developing a time warp bug? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Personally I think the mods are moving posts out of order and there is no timewarp bug. Gotta hand it to them, they've worked pretty hard to achieve this - its almost believable, ALMOST but a little too perfect.

Discuss.
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shirley you can't be serious
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I am serious...and don't call me [surely]
 
SunnyD

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The timewarp bug is (my best guess) a time synchronization issue with the forum server cluster (or the DB cluster). Ever notice how only certain people at any given time can mass-timewarp? That's because they end up connected to a given node in the cluster that's out of sync with the rest of the servers. Too many things line up with that hypothesis to make it plausible.
 
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Kaido

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Everyone knows it's because Desmond quit pushing that stupid button.

I'm really getting sick of these white flashes every time I time warp :|
 
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funkymatt

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Originally posted by: SunnyD
The timewarp bug is (my best guess) a time synchronization issue with the forum server cluster (or the DB cluster). Ever notice how only certain people at any given time can mass-timewarp? That's because they end up connected to a given node in the cluster that's out of sync with the rest of the servers. Too many things line up with that hypothesis to make it plausible.
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I posted this same thing a while ago. :beer: for bringing it up again.
 
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Originally posted by: Barack Obama
How can the software go from working normally to all of a sudden developing a time warp bug? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Personally I think the mods are moving posts out of order and there is no timewarp bug. Gotta hand it to them, they've worked pretty hard to achieve this - its almost believable, ALMOST but a little too perfect.
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There is a LOT of validity in what you say BUT, these still remain unanswered,

Motive
Seriously, what is there to gain by doing such a thing? We're already going to be moving to vB. So what's in it for them?

Too much effort
We've seen that these timewarps happen near-instantly AFTER a post. Which mod in their right mind would take all that effort to allow some users to time-warp?

Integrity
We may have differences of opinion with the mods at some times, but they are all good people.


Let's just write this off as some kind of odd co-incidence and just move on...
 
Dualist

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Only a forum system wide bug, regardless of what forum you post in. The bug may have been fixed if they updated to FuseTalk 3.1 long ago.
 
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