Worked a bunch on the Mac app today, one of my favorite things to work on. Almost done with the next update, so I’ll wrap it up tomorrow morning and release it. Also finally solved that ridiculous “41 new posts” bug.
Martin McCallion Aww, I’ll miss the 41 posts! Thought it was nearly the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
Manton Reece @devilgate When I found the problem today, I should’ve bumped it to “42” just for a day before fixing it. 🙂
💬 John Philpin not sure if you saw my post into the help community yesterday re my broken app .. hope this fixes it … and because my Mac app is broken .. using iOS a lot more .. so really looking forward to that back button fix in the top left corner
Paul Robert Lloyd What was the story behind it always showing exactly 41 new posts. There must be a story, surely!
Manton Reece @paulrobertlloyd It was a combination of two bugs: the Mac app not asking for the right “how many posts since…” value (only sometimes, which made it inconsistent) and the way the backend retrieved the timeline in batches of 40 posts, with an off-by-one error where it incremented the count an extra +1 to 41. 🙂
Martin McCallion I’ve just updated, and I see it now says “40+ new posts”, which makes more sense.
There’s still something not quite right though. I was reading down the timeline, and it popped up “1 new post”. Fair enough. But after a minute or two it changed to “40+”. When I refreshed, there was one new post.
Not a big problem, though.
Manton Reece @devilgate Hmm, sounds like there is still a bug then. I’ll look at it again.