Bug: Leaderboard can have different results for the same day depending on which page you look at

[tymmur]

Looking at past leaders, the 5th of April will have the votes 11, 6, 3.

Clicking on the 5th of April to get an overview of that day, the most voted people got 11, 10, 6, 6.

Luckily they agree on who won the day, but that's about it. Nobody else has the same place on both pages.

[Yuuko]

Could it be that the first one uses the timezone you have set on your account and the other one is using the server timezone idk

[havoc]

its not a bug, its a feature

[Dreamysyu]

I don't think it's a bug. These two pages obviously count likes in a different way, somehow. I don't know what they are, but literally, who cares? I'd guess that the first page counts the likes you get in that day, and the second page counts the likes for the posts that you post that day, and both update the date at UTC or something.

[DarkZedge]

[kokoro]

Maybe it's a problem on your end?

[tymmur]

5 hours ago, Dreamysyu said:

I don't think it's a bug. These two pages obviously count likes in a different way, somehow.

Obviously they count in different ways, yet they both state it to be the final count for the same day. By most definitions that's a bug.

5 hours ago, Dreamysyu said:

but literally, who cares?

At some point somebody cared enough to write the feature. I report the issues I encounter and then I assume the people responsible for the software can figure out if it's worth fixing. I have tried people failing to report bugs to me because "he wrote the software. Surely he knows" or "I can live with it" and then it goes unnoticed for a while and it turns out to be a more severe issue than people expected. Just report the issues and let the people responsible for the software judge how important it is. They know the internals and are better suited to make such a judgment. For all I know it could be database corruption (unlikely, but not completely impossible).

14 minutes ago, kokoro said:

Maybe it's a problem on your end?

If my computer can affect how the server reads from the database, then that's a bug.

[Plk_Lesiak]

5 hours ago, tymmur said:

I have tried people failing to report bugs to me because "he wrote the software. Surely he knows" or "I can live with it" and then it goes unnoticed for a while and it turns out to be a more severe issue than people expected.

It's a criminal offence? 

[tymmur]

4 hours ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

It's a criminal offence? 

Absolutely. Failing to report a bug is a case for IP (Internet Police) (it's not, but it is polite and helps getting things running smoothly)

[Nayleen]

Might also be caching, you never know with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A quick fix would be to stop caring about likes as much, but who am I kidding?