There is something a bit weird I noticed lately: When the message 'Question with new activity' pops up at the top of the questions list and I click the 'Questions' button instead of the message itself, the new question mysteriously vanishes for a few minutes or so, no matter how often I click 'Questions' again. Basically it looks like the polling time for the bar is much shorter than that for the 'Question' button. Did anybody notice this?
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5Yup, I noticed that too.– doncherryMay 27, 2012 at 12:36
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So there's no fix? Maybe it's just me, but I find it kinda annoying.– Count ZeroJun 18, 2012 at 21:42
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You could flag this question to be migrated to Meta Stack Exchange, there'll be people more knowledgeable about this issue. I'd assume though that it'll be status-bydesign because the live update and the normal update work in very different ways.– doncherryJun 18, 2012 at 21:53
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@doncherry: Thanks, will do.– Count ZeroJun 18, 2012 at 21:57
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Whoops. I totally misread the post, pardon the duplicate vote. This is, however, somewhat related to Real time updates get lost when navigating back to a page– Tim StoneJun 19, 2012 at 16:35
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This is by design.
The Questions page is heavily cached, so it can take a couple of minutes for new questions to appear.
Since pushing new questions via Web Sockets is a lot less expensive, there's no caching (or less) and they appear much faster this way.
When [...] I click the 'Questions' button instead of the message itself, the new question mysteriously vanishes for a few minutes or so[.]
The obvious solution is: Don't do that.
Real-time updates have been designed specifically to prevent this delay and reduce the load on the servers.
