When I was browsing SOPW just now I noticed that from the first page of entries on SOPW "(1-10) of 7969" at the bottom when I clicked "Next Entries--->" the first article showing on the "next page" seems to be the 7th article from the first page through the 16th article not "(11-20) of 7969" as shown at the bottom.

Is this a bug or a result of deleted (or hidden) nodes I cannot see at my current XP level?

Perl Monks Discussion area (here) browses like I'd expect.

What got me is I was looking for new articles to vote on and thought I saw duplicates I just reviewed. They weren't duplicated, just presented again on page two of SOPW.

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Re: SOPW strange behavior
by ChemBoy (Priest) on Jul 26, 2001 at 05:28 UTC

    I'm guessing that during the time you spent reading nodes on the first page, three new ones were added: if your browser caches reasonably, you might not notice this (if, for instance, you use the "back" button instead of clicking on the go to Seekers of Perl Wisdom link at the bottom of the page). However, when you ask for the next page, you're getting it fresh and hot out of the oven, so it gives you the 11-20th nodes counting back from the moment you clicked the link, not the ten after the ones on the current page.

    This might be construed as an interface issue, though I don't think it qualifies as a "bug" per se.


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      I set my IE 5.5 to check for newer versions of the page every visit when I first join the Perl Monks site as suggested in the signup procedure. I think your explanation is possible and I caught the server at just the right moment to produce those results. Thanks!

      Update: 7/27 11:44pm ET, I saw the same problem just moments ago in SOPW again!
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