# Thread Broke

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-broke/350485>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 30, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-broke/350485 "2006-03-30T01:14:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-broke/350485/1 "2006-03-30T01:14:27Z")

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The BBQ pit thread about [crashing a WoW funeral](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7246817#post7246817) is playing up. I posted in reply to sublight, but now I can’t access my post. I’m shown as the last poster, in my profile if I check my posts it shows that I have posted to the thread, and from inside the thread it shows there’s 4 pages, but from outside the thread it only shows 3. If I go through my profile, and click on my post id it just loads the 3rd page again.

I broked it ☹

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-broke/350485/2 "2006-03-30T01:34:29Z")

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> [@Sierra Indigo](#):
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> I broked it ☹

I looked at the thread and, as you say, was unable to see your post.  
I then added a ‘test post’ to the thread and lo and behold, my post is there, and yours is now right above it.

The vB software gets funky about the last post in a thread once in a while. Adding a post fixes the problem.

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-broke/350485/3 "2006-03-30T01:34:56Z")

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That’s an occasional glitch. As soon as another post or two are made, it will clear up.

As to _why_ it happens, who knows?

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**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-broke/350485/4 "2006-03-30T01:38:36Z")

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Thank you!

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**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-broke/350485/5 "2006-03-30T14:29:09Z")

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I’ve noticed this sometimes, too. It usually happens when the last post is the first one on a new page. As soon as someone else posts to the thread it’s fixed.
