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Incorrect activity shown in question list
I've noticed this in several cases in the last day or so. The activity shown in the question list does not match the actual activity. Here is one example activity list entry:
The actual question is at https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/279978. Inside that question it shows the question was written "16 hours ago", Andy's answer "43 minutes ago", and my answer "22 minutes ago". These values seem correct.
I tried doing a refresh (F5 in Edge) in the question list, but nothing changed.
I thought it might be some caching somewhere, so the question list data is a little old. That would be fine and understandable. However, note that it says "2 answers", but shows the activity of the first answer, not the latest. If it was just a 12 minute lag (again, no problem with that), then it still should have caught the second answer.
I just tried it again with a second browser tab, and still the same problem. It now says the most recent activity was Andy's answer "42 minutes ago" in the question list. In the question his answer is "about one hour ago" and mine "33 minutes ago".
I just noticed another case at https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/posts/279974. The question list shows that last activity as being the question, although my answer obviously came later, and there were no edits to the question.
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I don't think this should be [status-completed]. Certainly the Scientific Speculation example is not fixed; the question still shows as "last activity 3 days ago by DonielF" in the questions list, but there is very clearly an answer that was "posted 2 days ago". — Canina about 1 month ago
I found the unreported edit on Scientific Speculation. This seems to be the bug with suggested edits not being reported on the post. A different bug was marked as a dupe of this one; that other one was fixed but this wasn't. — Monica Cellio about 1 month ago
This is completed as far as I can tell. Edits being applied updates last activity, and the bug of answers failing to has been fixed. — ArtOfCode about 1 month ago
@ArtOfCode are you saying that it'll work right going forward, but the existing data errors will remain? If you check the links you'll see that those posts aren't being reported correctly; does that mean that edits that predate the fix will remain broken (but it won't happen again), or that there's still an issue? What behavior did you expect for this case? Thanks. — Monica Cellio about 1 month ago
@MonicaCellio That'll be pre-existing errors. I'll try to run an update, but it may not catch every case. — ArtOfCode about 1 month ago