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Post by Poppies » Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:24 pm

Last night I noticed that I had an alert at the top of the screen that told me that I had the grand total of:

65,535 new messages....

I was really excited... thought I had loads of new friends.......... but when I clicked on it, there was nothing there! :(

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Post by mallie » Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:32 pm

I can't explain how that has happened. I'm not sure if someone who knows more about the inner workings of the board might know, but if it is all working again now it might be hard to figure out.

I know I've had email notifications of a PM, or it say so on the link but when I go its gone. That can happen if someone deletes the PM from their outbox before its read, but numbers like that sound unlikely. It is disappointing to think there are messages that aren't there. You do have friends here, even if there aren't 65000 PMs for you to open :star:

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Post by b3autifu2l37 » Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:34 pm

little miss popular :o
You do have friends here, even if there aren't 65000 PMs for you to open
just wanted to reiterate that!
not on BUS so much anymore- i do check PMs :)

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Post by Poppies » Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:52 pm

:lol: Thankyou!

It's back to normal now, but I'd be intrigued to know why it came up with that number! :)
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Post by Laura » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:17 pm

I've seen this on other web boards. The reason for the number is that 2^16 = 65536.
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Post by Scoots » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:51 pm

Laura wrote:I've seen this on other web boards. The reason for the number is that 2^16 = 65536.
Silly me for not realising that when I first saw the number!

Sorry :roll:

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Post by Poppies » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:59 pm

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Uuuuuuh.....

Ummmm...

Der........

*Turns it upside down and tries studying it that way*

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Post by marshmallowfluff » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:07 pm

i dont get iteither...

but this thread made me laugh lots :prplol:
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Post by mallie » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:12 pm

I still don't really know why it happens, but I've just had the same thing happen here. Random error I think. I took a screenshot and everything...

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Post by Poppies » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:41 pm

:lol:

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