Logged in as random PHer

[H2DaE]

I just refreshed the P&P page and it came back as a different layout with 'Welcome back TankRizzo' at the top instead of my username.

Erm, wtf?

[Garlick]

At least you weren't me, seems to happen more often than not these days

I'll get Pete to explain why this is happening as he is clever

[RacingPete]

It is down to cacheing (where we take a copy of a page for a length of time and display it to users so we dont have to put load on our databases looking up the same information). This cacheing is implemented across the whole site but is turned off for the areas that require frequent updating of data (eg the forums).

For some reason the cache decides to send out a copy of the page when looking at certain pages across the forums for a breif second and some people end up getting the last person who viewed that page version of the page.

We are working with our hosting company to try and stop this happening and if we can't sort by the end of the week remotely we are going to sit down on Tuesday and see if we can work it out once and for all.

[H2DaE]

I got nivlac's 'My Stuff' just now

[sniff diesel]

I was 'Carl W' before.

[he's crashed]

I momentarily appeared as a TVR owner, so you can imagine how I felt