I recently experienced a duplicate post and asked the mods to delete it. I was asked by mod @bmah to write how it happened, as he told me they had experienced more of these than usual lately. I’m writing this post here as I don’t have PM privileges.
Here is what happened when I experienced the duplicate post:
Here is what happened when I experienced the duplicate post:
- I tried to reply to a post, but didn’t realize that I was not logged in.
- I clicked the Post button and was asked to log in.
- I logged in and could write my reply and post it successfully. No duplicate.
- I logged in from a different device the next day, and immediately upon login I received a new notification that my post had been successful.
- I clicked on the notification and saw that another post like the one I made in step 3 had been automatically posted again, but with the current timestamp.