I just found a bizarre but potentially not life-threatening bug in the code that warns you when a subscribed forum is updated
It turns out that for multipart email messages, the email client I use on my phone displays the first few words of the text part in the folder list, but the HTML part when I actually open the message.
So this is how I realised that the text part of a "Daily forum update" email says "There is one new thread in the forum...", but the HTML part is more accurate and instead says "There is one new or updated thread in the forum" (my emphasis).
Slightly surprising that the code uses different basic text for the two parts of the message, no?
I have wondered several times after opening these messages on my phone about how I had misread the text fragment and imagined that there was a new thread in the Patch TEST forum (always exciting! ), when in fact it was just an updated one, but for ages I hadn't noticed the actual cause. Turns out I can read after all
I probably won't have a breakdown if this isn't fixed by tomorrow.
It turns out that for multipart email messages, the email client I use on my phone displays the first few words of the text part in the folder list, but the HTML part when I actually open the message.
So this is how I realised that the text part of a "Daily forum update" email says "There is one new thread in the forum...", but the HTML part is more accurate and instead says "There is one new or updated thread in the forum" (my emphasis).
Slightly surprising that the code uses different basic text for the two parts of the message, no?
I have wondered several times after opening these messages on my phone about how I had misread the text fragment and imagined that there was a new thread in the Patch TEST forum (always exciting! ), when in fact it was just an updated one, but for ages I hadn't noticed the actual cause. Turns out I can read after all
I probably won't have a breakdown if this isn't fixed by tomorrow.