Forums displaying incorrectly, "clocking" when quoting

as referenced in this post: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...or-anyone-else

Several people are having an issue with the forum displaying old cached pages instead of current pages when refreshing, likes/postcounts are displaying incorrectly unless reloaded several times. Trying to reply with poster quotes to certain posts causes the page to get stuck with the "loading" mouse cursor.

EDIT, Additional problem:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

When I hit New Posts, I’m redirected to a page that says “Sorry, there are no new posts to view. You may search for posts updated during the previous 24 hours, here”. When I go to Reply or Reply With Quote, the forum takes forever to load, and sometimes the latter will load with a blank box and no quote, so I have to refresh the page and try again.

Also, whenever I like a post, it resets the like count to zero. Refreshing the page sometimes fixes this, and other times doesn’t.

---

All problems have been duplicated across several computers and users.

Same issue, and basically said already but to add:

Issue persists across different devices/systems, both my desktop and mobile phone experience the same issue. These are different browsers too.

And this issue also exists in my settings page where subscribed threads reside (sometimes shows old info, sometimes new). And of course the search feature, like if you view user posts/threads.

Thanks for the thread, and thank you and good luck to the team to solve whatever is going on :)

Same things here, was wondering if it was just me lol

Same thing here, this happens on both my phone and mac across 3 different ISPs. It started about two days ago with the ghost posts showing around 11:37am BST if that is of any use.

Just wanted to post in this thread to update that I’m still having a lot of the same issues:

—New Posts taking me to a page that says there’s no new posts; I have to refresh New Posts multiple times to fix this (roughly 4~5 times)
—Like counts resetting to zero whenever I like a post
—Cached pages/threads that show posts that originally had multiple likes with zero likes, and that sometimes show my character as a Level 78 Dancer despite other pages/threads showing her as a Level 80 Dancer
—A lot of lag/slow response time when trying to Reply to Thread or Reply with Quote
—Reply with Quote sometimes loads with no quoted material, forcing me to refresh the page
—Some posters’ avatars and character/world/class information do not show
—Quoting posters sometimes will not show their character’s avatar next to the quoted text

Doesn’t matter if I use the forum from my phone, my iPad, or my desktop.

Same issue here. I cleared the cache, cleared all cookies related to square-enix.com and still it persists.

I'm seeing similar things, too. Frequently when I load the main English General Discussion page, it displays an old version with the latest post somewhere on July 3rd. Reloading doesn't always fix it. Reloading repeatedly is usually necessary before I finally get the correct page. And then after going into a thread, and clicking General Discussion again, the same thing often happens again.

Same thing for me the forums have been acting odd for over a week for me.

At least I know it is not just me that is having these issues - the problem seemed to start on the 3rd of July. Hence it's likely the issue is with the forum database which is more than VBulletin's usual minor quirks and 'character'. I really hope SE can look into the issue soon as although these problems are rather minor, they do make viewing and posting on the forum much less enjoyable sadly. :(

I have been having the same issue for several days now.

Okay it seems the issue has resolved as updated posts are properly displaying for me now, so I guess it was quietly fixed behind the scenes. If so, thank you GMs for resolving this. :)

Seems to have been resolved here as well. Nice to be able to use the forums normally again.

I think the issue has come back, I just posted a thread in the lore forum and yet it keeps showing the previous post as being the latest on the main forum page. :(

EDIT: and, never mind, it's working now. I think I'm just now paranoid of that bug showing it's ugly head again.