Discussion Forum bug that made me laughing

[DRagor]

So today one of my alerts was "you have been awarded a trophy" (yay!). Then I click it and see the following:

Graphics Card Expert (50 points)

You're a graphics card expert with 10 Best Answers in the Laptop General Discussion Category.

😛 10 Laptop answers makes me graphics cards expert? Then 10 graphic card answers will make me storage master? 🤔 I remember in previous incarnation of the forums we had some stupid bugs too (like you couldn't get any points in some categories) but I really hoped new forum will be better ... Well, it probably is better in some areas for sure.

 

[Colif]

Guess when they had to set up 3 levels of trophies on just the subject related forums and there are 27 different categories that fall into that classification, mistakes are made
Your last BA was a GPU one so I have to assume its just the text here that is wrong

10 Best Answers in the Laptop General Discussion Category.

so it gave right trophy, just text is wrong.
Its not the only one out there, some of the other trophies with more than 3 levels have some interesting behaviors. trophy for 200 might be below the one for 150 in descriptions.

Storage trophy was broken when we started here, almost everyone gets 2nd lvl even if they have no BA. But rest should work. Storage Master is a surprise when you get it as you have no way of knowing what your score is before hand.

I recall broken trophies on old forums, wondering how you get some.

nice if this trophy matched forum description its for - https://forums.tomshardware.com/trophy-categories/ComputerBrands/

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Here is mine. lol, I think I got this a long way back when I actually used to mostly post under the Graphics cards category/section. Same issue. But like colif mentioned above just now, the trophy is correct. Only the TEXT is wrong.

 

[Colif]

You can tell when you got the last lvl of a trophy by looking on here - https://forums.tomshardware.com/members/metal-messiah.2731765/#trophies
you got it 23 Aug 2019.

quick scan shows GPU likely only trophy with this error.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Awesome. Thanks.

 

[DRagor]

@Colif we are both old enough members to know that on old forum all calls for fixing trophy bugs were always answered "we can no longer change the forum code, this will be fixed when we move to new forum engine" (or something alike). Now we are 3(?) years on new engine, and there are again bugs not being fixed. What's the excuse this time? Even more as it looks like just a description bug - how hard is to modify a line of text on forum engine ...

 

[Colif]

The admin here look after way more than just TH now.
Many of these sites have forums now, I don't know how many as I asked admin a few days ago and didn't get an answer

Home to the world's most popular brands - Future plc

Our brands span a range of categories, from lifestyle to technology. By capturing attention and stirring emotions, we create loyal fans of our brands.

www.futureplc.com

So while a few years ago they only looked after here, and run it, TH is just part of a bigger network now.
It is only reason I can give for why things aren't as good as we had hoped 3 years ago.

I know admin used to look in here, so if I @CParsons he might have the time to change it.

 

[DRagor]

The admin here look after way more than just TH now

Fair. That's the excuse I can understand and accept. Still pity if things look this way.