Multiple poll notifications

[denise]

If you're subscribed to notifications of poll votes, and have been getting multiple notifications of votes in dw_suggestions polls, please comment here! Let us know a) if you've been having it happen anywhere but here, and b) if you're willing to do some troubleshooting with us to figure out what's causing it.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I can't remember whether I changed my vote there.

And we have at least two instances of someone who had a duplicate one time and not another -- I happen to recall lots from mmmag and syderia on one of my recent ones.

[matgb]

Is it possible that the multiple notifications are from multiple votes, and perhaps the voter in question had a problem with votes going through/displaying had gone through?

ie it's an issue with the new AJAX voting and a small number of people/browsers, not an issue with ESN?

[kareila]

I suspect the AJAX is part of it, but if that were the only factor we'd be able to reproduce it in other communities as well. So far we've only heard of it happening here in suggestions.

[melannen]

I thought it was something like this at first, but I got 21 notifications in less than two seconds once; if that's the result of something the user's doing, there's still something very wrong going on. (And other people have had far more in less time.)

[red_eft]

yeah, 60+ poll votes at once is a little much for someone just mashing the 'submit' button in frustration, I think.

[melannen]

I can see that happening by accident in some ways - for example, if a tab is saved to open whenever I start my browser, it might end up getting opened sixty or more times before I actually bother dealing with it. Or if I'm really frustrated by a page that doesn't seem to be loading and If5 it repeatedly in a rage.

However, not sixty times in the span of two seconds.

[matgb]

Pretty much, yes. My connection is sloooow tonight, and some polls I've submitted took a few seconds (one took a minute or two) to clear through, but 21 clicks in that short a time is more likely to be a bug.

[msilverstar]

the AJAX voting seems very possible to me.