Board software phpBB updated to 3.2.10

[ghisler(Author)]

Today I have updated the board software to 3.2.10. Please let me know if you encounter any problems.

It seems that this is the last update of the 3.2 branch, so I will have to update to the 3.3 branch within the next 3 months. Unfortuantely this will probably break some of the used extensions...

[Horst.Epp]

I have the strange effect in Firefox 80.0 that I always have to hit the Reload button to see new posts.
This doesn't happen with other similar boards.

[ghisler(Author)]

Could you please explain this a bit more? Do you mean that you can remain on the list of threads, and it would aumtoatically refresh every x minutes?

[Horst.Epp]

Could you please explain this a bit more? Do you mean that you can remain on the list of threads, and it would aumtoatically refresh every x minutes?

No, if I enter the list I have to hit the reload button first, bevor I can see any new or updated threads.
The same happens if I then go into one of the updated threads.

[CoolWater]

Could you please explain this a bit more? Do you mean that you can remain on the list of threads, and it would aumtoatically refresh every x minutes?

No, if I enter the list I have to hit the reload button first, bevor I can see any new or updated threads.
The same happens if I then go into one of the updated threads.

Confirmed here, FF 80.0.1 (32 Bit) CTRL+F5 also works to reload the page. Maybe a caching problem.

Also when editting my post, the board software doesn't show the latest version of my post. Only after pressing CTRL+F5/relaod.

[ghisler(Author)]

I can reproduce the problem too now. I will try to find the cause in the sources.

[ghisler(Author)]

I have now added two headers via NGINX:
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate

Since it was set to 7 days before, you still need to press Ctrl+R on every misbehaving page once. Afterwards it should work fine again.

[Dalai]

No problems here requiring me to refresh the page manually.

[ghisler(Author)]

I have changed it and only keep this line:
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Because with the line below, going forward and back results in an error about an expired document:
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate

I don't know why it suddenly started happening, but Nginx was sending contradicting headers:
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: max-age=604800
Expires: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 11:43:39 GMT

The first and third header say that it should not cache the page, but the second said to cache it for 7 days. Now I have changed the second to 0 days.

[petermad]

I don't know whether this is due to the software update, but I have noticed this:

When I open a users profile I get more statistical information for some users than others.

1. For some users the info about "Last active:" just shows: "-" despite that I can find very recent posting for the user.
2. For some users (myself included) the info about "Most active forum:" and "Most active topic:" is simply missing.

[Dalai]

1. For some users the info about "Last active:" just shows: "-" despite that I can find very recent posting for the user.

That likely depends on a setting in the user profile: "Hide my online status". If that's enabled, nobody can see when that user was last active.

2. For some users (myself included) the info about "Most active forum:" and "Most active topic:" is simply missing.

I can confirm this observation. In CoolWater's profile and Horst.Epp's profile the information is present, in mine it's missing. I'm curious as to why that might be.

Regards
Dalai

[petermad]

I can confirm this observation. In CoolWater's profile and Horst.Epp's profile the information is present, in mine it's missing. I'm curious as to why that might be.

So far it looks to me that the information is only missing for members with many (5000+) postings.

That likely depends on a setting in the user profile: "Hide my online status". If that's enabled, nobody can see when that user was last active.

I just tested that - it seems to be correct. I would be more conveniant if the info for "Last active:" in that case (or maybe always) showed the date of the users last posting.