The priority field in an SRV RR indicates a preferential order at which
the underlying targets should be utilised. We need to prefer healthy
services in order of priority, where 0 is highest.
Prior to this commit, we relied on whatever order the
dnsclient.getresources method returned. As it turns out, this assumption
is incorrect. The order returned is likely whatever order the system
resolver received DNS responses in, which may not be ordered according
to the spec.
This introduces a ResolvedAddress type which holds the priority value
for SRV targets, or a stand-in priority of zero for A/AAAA RRs. This
type is used as a return value from the underlying name resolution
routines in Name and SRVName.
In this manner, all ordering by priority and resolved time can be
performed directly within the ResolverCache class and calling code can
continue to be none-the-wiser.
Before sorting, we still ensure that we only consider targets with a
priority within the given threshold as previously implemented.
See t/115911.
These updates significantly improve IDE tooling for imports across the Discourse core codebase, and also for framework packages. The `@types/ember-*` packages are a temporary solution until we get onto Ember 5, which ships its types in the main package.
The previous approach of having jsconfig files in each package directory did work, but once you start adding all the possible interlinks between them, we hit the file count limit of VSCode's tooling (because it counts every file for every jsconfig its referenced in). Having one file at the root means that a single file can apply to all core packages and plugins.
Long-term, to get the same functionality for all themes/plugins, we may need to look at building/publishing a Discourse types package which can be added to theme/plugin package.json files for development purposes.
Discourse stopped using PostUpload in 9db8f00b3d. Since then, these importers have been writing to the table, but any data was totally unused. This commit updates the easy cases to use UploadReference, and adds an error to the discourse_merger import script, which needs more significant work.
Discourse core now builds and runs with Embroider! This commit adds
the Embroider-based build pipeline (`USE_EMBROIDER=1`) and start
testing it on CI.
The new pipeline uses Embroider's compat mode + webpack bundler to
build discourse code, and leave everything else (admin, wizard,
markdown-it, plugins, etc) exactly the same using the existing
Broccoli-based build as external bundles (<script> tags), passed
to the build as `extraPublicTress` (which just means they get
placed in the `/public` folder).
At runtime, these "external" bundles are glued back together with
`loader.js`. Specifically, the external bundles are compiled as
AMD modules (just as they were before) and registered with the
global `loader.js` instance. They expect their `import`s (outside
of whatever is included in the bundle) to be already available in
the `loader.js` runtime registry.
In the classic build, _every_ module gets compiled into AMD and
gets added to the `loader.js` runtime registry. In Embroider,
the goal is to do this as little as possible, to give the bundler
more flexibility to optimize modules, or omit them entirely if it
is confident that the module is unused (i.e. tree-shaking).
Even in the most compatible mode, there are cases where Embroider
is confident enough to omit modules in the runtime `loader.js`
registry (notably, "auto-imported" non-addon NPM packages). So we
have to be mindful of that an manage those dependencies ourselves,
as seen in #22703.
In the longer term, we will look into using modern features (such
as `import()`) to express these inter-dependencies.
This will only be behind a flag for a short period of time while we
perform some final testing. Within the next few weeks, we intend
to enable by default and remove the flag.
---------
Co-authored-by: David Taylor <david@taylorhq.com>
## What is the context here?
The `docker.rake` Rakefile contains Rake tasks that are meant to be run
in the `discourse/discourse_test:release` Docker image. For example, we
have the `docker:test` Rake task that makes it easier to run the test
suite for a particular Discourse commit.
Why are we introducing a `docker:test:setup` Rake task?
While we have the `docker:test` Rake task, it is very limited in the
test commands that can be executed. It is very useful for automated
testing but not very useful for running tests in the development
environment. Therefore, we are introducing a `docker:test:setup` rake
task that can be used to set up the test environment for running tests.
The envisioned example usage is something like this:
```
docker run -d --name=discourse_test --entrypoint=/sbin/boot discourse/discourse_test:release
docker exec -u discourse:discourse discourse_test ruby script/docker_test.rb --no-tests
docker exec -u discourse:discourse discourse_test bundle exec rake docker:test:setup
docker exec -u discourse:discourse discourse_test bundle exec rspec <path to file>
```
This commit adds some system specs to test uploads with
direct to S3 single and multipart uploads via uppy. This
is done with minio as a local S3 replacement. We are doing
this to catch regressions when uppy dependencies need to
be upgraded or we change uppy upload code, since before
this there was no way to know outside manual testing whether
these changes would cause regressions.
Minio's server lifecycle and the installed binaries are managed
by the https://github.com/discourse/minio_runner gem, though the
binaries are already installed on the discourse_test image we run
GitHub CI from.
These tests will only run in CI unless you specifically use the
CI=1 or RUN_S3_SYSTEM_SPECS=1 env vars.
For a history of experimentation here see https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/22381
Related PRs:
* https://github.com/discourse/minio_runner/pull/1
* https://github.com/discourse/minio_runner/pull/2
* https://github.com/discourse/minio_runner/pull/3
It's very simple import script and currently imports only the following content:
* Users
* Messages as Discourse topics/posts
* Attachments
Each channel can be mapped to a category and tags. It uses regular expressions to convert formatted messages ("rich text") into Markdown used by Discourse. In the future we could convert the `blocks` attribute from each message into Markdown instead of applying regular expressions on the `text` attribute.
Various migration scripts define a normalize_raw method to do custom processing of post contents before storing it in the Post.raw and other fields.
They normally do not handle nil inputs, but it's a relatively common occurrence in data dumps.
Since this method is used from various points in the migration script, as it stands, the experience of using a migration script is that it will fail multiple times at different points, forcing you to fix the data or apply logic hacks every time then restarting.
This PR generalizes handling of nil input by returning a <missing> string.
Pros:
no more messy repeated crashes + restarts
consistency
Cons:
it might hide data issues
OTOH we can't print a warning on that method because it will flood the console since it's called from inside loops.
* FIX: zendesk import script: support nil inputs in normalize_raw
* FIX: return '<missing>' instead of empty string; do it for all methods
Before `pg` gem version 1.4.6 was loading `date` as dependency.
Looks like version 1.5.1 is not doing that anymore. Update was done here: d32709a74f
Therefore, we have to load `date` explicitly.
Previously, FETCH_HEAD would always point to tests-passed because our base docker image was configured to only fetch the tests-passed branch. Since https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/commit/53bbacc882, we switched to a partial clone which means that `git fetch; git checkout FETCH_HEAD` will checkout whichever remote branch is the first alphabetically. This commit makes the checkout more specific to avoid this issue.
Fixes an assumption that the PostgreSQL port will always be reachable at
the discovered host on the default port when performing the healthcheck.
Instead we should be sourcing this from the same environment variable
that the application will be using to connect to.
Defaults to the standard PG port, 5432.
There are two failure modes that can be expected - no target SRV DNS RRs
found or no healthy service available at target addresses. Prior to this
patch, there was no way to differentiate from log messages between the
two cases.
Introduce an EmptyCache exception which may be raised by either the
ResolverCache or HealthyCache. The exception message contains enough
information about where the exception occurred to troubleshoot issues.
An existing bug was fixed in this commit. Previously if a target address
changed during runtime, an old cached (healthy) address would be
returned.. The behaviour has been corrected to return the newly cached
address.
This commit implements many changes to topic and comments embedding. It
deprecates the class_name field from EmbeddableHost and suggests using
the className parameter. discourse_username parameter has been
deprecated and it will fetch it from embedded site from the author or
discourse-username meta.
See the updated code sample from Admin > Customize > Embedding page.
* FEATURE: Add className parameter for Discourse embed
* DEV: Hide class_name from EmbeddableHost
* DEV: Deprecate class_name field of EmbeddableHost
* FEATURE: Use either author or discourse-username meta tag
* DEV: Deprecate discourse_username parameter
* DEV: Improve embed code sample
* FIX: Use pluralized string
* REFACTOR: Fix misuse of pluralized string
* REFACTOR: Fix misuse of pluralized string
* DEV: Remove linting of `one` key in MessageFormat string, it doesn't work
* REFACTOR: Fix misuse of pluralized string
This also ensures that the URL works on subfolder and shows the site setting link only for admins instead of staff. The string is quite complicated, so the best option was to switch to MessageFormat.
* REFACTOR: Fix misuse of pluralized string
* FIX: Use pluralized string
This also ensures that the URL works on subfolder and shows the site setting link only for admins instead of staff.
* REFACTOR: Correctly pluralize reaction tooltips in chat
This also ensures that maximum 5 usernames are shown and fixes the number of "others" which was off by 1 if the current user reacted on a message.
* REFACTOR: Use translatable string as comma separator
* DEV: Add comment to translation to clarify the meaning of `%{identifier}`
* REFACTOR: Use translatable comma separator and use explicit interpolation keys
* REFACTOR: Don't interpolate lowercase channel status
* REFACTOR: Fix misuse of pluralized string
* REFACTOR: Don't interpolate channel status
* REFACTOR: Use %{count} interpolation key
* REFACTOR: Fix misuse of pluralized string
* REFACTOR: Correctly pluralize DM chat channel titles
The #pluck_first freedom patch, first introduced by @danielwaterworth has served us well, and is used widely throughout both core and plugins. It seems to have been a common enough use case that Rails 6 introduced it's own method #pick with the exact same implementation. This allows us to retire the freedom patch and switch over to the built-in ActiveRecord method.
There is no replacement for #pluck_first!, but a quick search shows we are using this in a very limited capacity, and in some cases incorrectly (by assuming a nil return rather than an exception), which can quite easily be replaced with #pick plus some extra handling.
This bug is actually a Drupal issue where some edited posts have their `created` and `changed` timestamps set to the same value. But even when that happens in Drupal it still maintains the correct post order in an affected thread. This PR makes the Discourse importer also maintain the original Drupal comment order by sorting comments in the source DB by their `cid`, which is sequential and never changes. More details from this post onward:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/large-drupal-forum-migration-importer-errors-and-limitations/246939/24?u=rahim123
We'd like to lean on the DNS caching service for more than the standard
DB and Redis hosts, but without having to add additional code each time.
Define a new environment variable
DISCOURSE_DNS_CACHE_ADDITIONAL_SERVICE_NAMES (admittedly a mouthful)
which is a list of service names to be added to the static list at
process execution time.
For example, plugin foo may reference two services that you want to
cache the address of. By specifying the following two variables in the
process environment, cache_critical_dns will perform the lookup
alongside the DB and Redis host variables.
```
DISCOURSE_DNS_CACHE_ADDITIONAL_SERVICE_NAMES='FOO_SERVICE1,FOO_SERVICE2'
FOO_SERVICE1='foo.service1.example.com'
FOO_SERVICE1_SRV='foo._tcp.example.com'
FOO_SERVICE2='foo.service2.example.com'
```
The behaviour when it comes to SRV record lookup is the same as
previously implemented for the `DISCOURSE_DB_..` and
`DISCOURSE_REDIS_..` variables.
For the purposes of the health checks, services defined in the list _are
always considered healthy_. This is a compromise for conveniences sake.
Defining a dynamic method for health checks at runtime is not practical.
See t/88457/32.
1. Fix bug where we were not waiting for all unicorn workers to start up
before running benchmarks.
2. Fix a bug where headers were not used when benchmarking. Admin
benchmarks were basically running as anon user.
3. Disable rate limits when in profile env. We're pretty much going to
hit the rate limit every time as a normal user.
4. Benchmark against topic with a fixed posts count of 100. Previously profiling script was just randomly creating posts
and we would benchmark against a topic with a fixed posts count of 30.
Sometimes, the script fails because no topics with a posts count of 30
exists.
5. Benchmarks are not run against a normal user on top of anon and
admin.
6. Add script option to select tests that should be run.
This commit promotes all post_deploy migrations which existed in
Discourse v2.8.0 (timestamp <= 20220107014925).
This commit includes a fix to the promote_migrations script to promote
all migrations of the first version of the previous stable version. For
example, if the current stable version is v2.8.13, the version used as
a cutoff for promoting migrations is v2.8.0.
While load testing our user creation code path in production, we
identified that executing the DB statement to update the `Group#user_count` column within a
transaction is creating a bottleneck for us. This is because the
creation of a user and addition of the user to the relevant groups are
done in a transaction. When we execute the DB statement to update
`Group#user_count` for the relevant group, a row level lock is held
until the transaction completes. This row level lock acts like a global
lock when the server is creating users that will be added to the same
group in quick succession.
Instead of updating the counter cache within a transaction which the
default ActiveRecord `counter_cache` option does, we simply update the
counter cache outside of the committing transaction.
Co-authored-by: Rafael dos Santos Silva <xfalcox@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Rafael dos Santos Silva <xfalcox@gmail.com>
* Allow taking table prefix from env var
* FIX: remove unused column references
The columns `filedata` and `extension` are not present in a v4.2.4
database, and they aren't used in the method anyways.
* FIX: report progress for tables without imported_id
* FIX: effectively check for AR validation errors
NOTE: other migration scripts also have this problem; see /t/58202
* FIX: properly count Posts when importing attachments
* FIX: improve logging
* Remove leftover comment
* FIX: show progress when exporting Permalink file
* PERF: stream Permalink file
The current way results in tons of memory usage; write once per line instead
* Document fixes needed
* WIP - deduplicate category names
* Ignore non alphanumeric chars for grouping
* FIX: properly deduplicate user emails by merging accounts
* FIX: don't merge empty UserEmails
* Improve logging
* Merge users AFTER fixing primary key sequences
* Parallelize user merging
* Save duplicated users structure for debugging purposes
* Add progress logging for the (multiple hour) user merging step
We now use Ember CLI (core/plugins) and DiscourseJSProcessor (themes) for all Ember and template compilation. This commit removes the remnants of the legacy Sprockets-based Ember compilation system.
Sprockets, and its DiscourseJSProcess-based Babel transformations, is still in use for a few assets. Ideally that will be removed/replaced in the near future.
We are already caching any DB_HOST and REDIS_HOST (and their
accompanying replicas), we should also cache the resolved addresses for
the MessageBus specific Redis. This is a noop if no MB redis is defined
in config. A side effect is that the MB will also support SRV lookup and
priorities, following the same convention as the other cached services.
The port argument was added to redis_healthcheck so that the script
supports a setup where Redis is running on a non-default port.
Did some minor refactoring to improve readability when filtering out the
CRITICAL_HOST_ENV_VARS. The `select` block was a bit confusing, so the
sequence was made easier to follow.
We were coercing an environment variable to an int in a few places, so
the `env_as_int` method was introduced to do that coercion in one place and
for convenience purposes default to a value if provided.
See /t/68301/30.
* handle polls with duplicate items
* handle polls with incorrect poll_option_total values
* handle group IDs in personal messages
* support for version 3.3
There are situations where a container running Discourse may want to
cache the critical DNS services without running the cache_critical_dns
service, for example running migrations prior to running a full bore
application container.
Add a `--once` argument for the cache_critical_dns script that will
only execute the main loop once, and return the status code for the
script to use when exiting. 0 indicates no errors occured during SRV
resolution, and 1 indicates a failure during the SRV lookup.
Nothing is reported to prometheus in run_once mode. Generally this
mode of operation would be a part of a unix pipeline, in which the exit
status is a more meaningful and immediate signal than a prometheus metric.
The reporting has been moved into it's own method that can be called
only when the script is running as a service.
See /t/69597.
Describes the behaviour and configuration of the cache_critical_dns
script, mainly cribbed from commit messages. Tries to make this program
a bit less of an enigma.
The `PG::Connection#ping` method is only reliable for checking if the
given host is accepting connections, and not if the authentication
details are valid.
This extends the healthcheck to confirm that the auth details are
able to both create a connection and execute queries against the
database.
We expect the empty query to return an empty result set, so we can
assert on that. If a failure occurs for any reason, the healthcheck will
return false.
This commit migrates all bookmarks to be polymorphic (using the
bookmarkable_id and bookmarkable_type) columns. It also deletes
all the old code guarded behind the use_polymorphic_bookmarks setting
and changes that setting to true for all sites and by default for
the sake of plugins.
No data is deleted in the migrations, the old post_id and for_topic
columns for bookmarks will be dropped later on.
An SRV RR contains a priority value for each of the SRV targets that
are present, ranging from 0 - 65535. When caching SRV records we may want to
filter out any targets above or below a particular threshold.
This change adds support for specifying a lower and/or upper bound on
target priorities for any SRV RRs. Any targets returned when resolving
the SRV RR whose priority does not fall between the lower and upper
thresholds are ignored.
For example: Let's say we are running two Redis servers, a primary and
cold server as a backup (but not a replica). Both servers would pass health
checks, but clearly the primary should be preferred over the backup
server. In this case, we could configure our SRV RR with the primary
target as priority 1 and backup target as priority 10. The
`DISCOURSE_REDIS_HOST_SRV_LE` could then be set to 1 and the target with
priority 10 would be ignored.
See /t/66045.
`ActiveRecord::Base.connection_config` has been deprecated since Rails
6.1 and was completely removed from Rails 7.
Instead we need to use
`ActiveRecord::Base.connection_db_config.configuration_hash`.
Import scripts were forgotten when we did the Rails 7 upgrade, this
patch fixes them.
A bit of a mixed bag, this addresses several edge areas of bookmarks and makes them compatible with polymorphic bookmarks (hidden behind the `use_polymorphic_bookmarks` site setting). The main ones are:
* ExportUserArchive compatibility
* SyncTopicUserBookmarked job compatibility
* Sending different notifications for the bookmark reminders based on the bookmarkable type
* Import scripts compatibility
* BookmarkReminderNotificationHandler compatibility
This PR also refactors the `register_bookmarkable` API so it accepts a class descended from a `BaseBookmarkable` class instead. This was done because we kept having to add more and more lambdas/properties inline and it was very messy, so a factory pattern is cleaner. The classes can be tested independently as well.
Some later PRs will address some other areas like the discourse narrative bot, advanced search, reports, and the .ics endpoint for bookmarks.
This removes the option to override the sleep time between caching of
DNS records. The override was invalid because `''.to_i` is 0 in Ruby,
causing a tight loop calling the `run` method.
For Redis connections that operate over TLS, we need to ensure that we
are setting the correct arguments for the Redis client. We can utilise
the existing environment variable `DISCOURSE_REDIS_USE_SSL` to toggle
this behaviour.
No SSL verification is performed for two reasons:
- the Discourse application will perform a verification against any FQDN
as specified for the Redis host
- the healthcheck is run against the _resolved_ IP address for the Redis
hostname, and any SSL verification will always fail against a direct
IP address
If no SSL arguments are provided, the IP address is never cached against
the hostname as no healthy address is ever found in the HealthyCache.
Modify the cache_critical_dns script for SRV RR awareness. The new
behaviour is only enabled when one or more of the following environment
variables are present (and only for a host where the `DISCOURSE_*_HOST_SRV`
variable is present):
- `DISCOURSE_DB_HOST_SRV`
- `DISCOURSE_DB_REPLICA_HOST_SRV`
- `DISCOURSE_REDIS_HOST_SRV`
- `DISCOURSE_REDIS_REPLICA_HOST_SRV`
Some minor changes in refactor to original script behaviour:
- add Name and SRVName classes for storing resolved addresses for a hostname
- pass DNS client into main run loop instead of creating inside the loop
- ensure all times are UTC
- add environment override for system hosts file path and time between DNS
checks mainly for testing purposes
The environment variable for `BUNDLE_GEMFILE` is set to enables Ruby to
load gems that are installed and vendored via the project's Gemfile.
This script is usually not run from the project directory as it is
configured as a system service (see
71ba9fb7b5/templates/cache-dns.template.yml (L19))
and therefore cannot load gems like `pg` or `redis` from the default
load paths. Setting this environment variable configures bundler to look
in the correct project directory during it's setup phase.
When a `DISCOURSE_*_HOST_SRV` environment variable is present, the
decision for which target to cache is as follows:
- resolve the SRV targets for the provided hostname
- lookup the addresses for all of the resolved SRV targets via the
A and AAAA RRs for the target's hostname
- perform a protocol-aware healthcheck (PostgreSQL or Redis pings)
- pick the newest target that passes the healthcheck
From there, the resolved address for the SRV target is cached against
the hostname as specified by the original form of the environment
variable.
For example: The hostname specified by the `DISCOURSE_DB_HOST` record
is `database.example.com`, and the `DISCOURSE_DB_HOST_SRV` record is
`database._postgresql._tcp.sd.example.com`. An SRV RR lookup will return
zero or more targets. Each of the targets will be queried for A and AAAA
RRs. For each of the addresses returned, the newest address that passes
a protocol-aware healthcheck will be cached. This address is cached so
that if any newer address for the SRV target appears we can perform a
health check and prefer the newer address if the check passes.
All resolved SRV targets are cached for a minimum of 30 minutes in memory
so that we can prefer newer hosts over older hosts when more than one target
is returned. Any host in the cache that hasn't been seen for more than 30
minutes is purged.
See /t/61485.
If someone types `yes` rather than `YES`, continue anyway.
The chance of typing `yes`, when you actually want to stop, is non-existent. The chance of typing `yes` when you meant `YES` is high, and it's very frustrating when the script quite because you got the case wrong!
This commit promotes all post_deploy migrations which existed in Discourse v2.7.13 (timestamp <= 20210328233843)
This reduces the likelihood of issues relating to migration run order
Also fixes a couple of typos in `script/promote_migrations`
This allows text editors to use correct syntax coloring for the heredoc sections.
Heredoc tag names we use:
languages: SQL, JS, RUBY, LUA, HTML, CSS, SCSS, SH, HBS, XML, YAML/YML, MF, ICS
other: MD, TEXT/TXT, RAW, EMAIL
We validate the *format* of email addresses in many places with a match against
a regex, often with very slightly different syntax.
Adding a separate EmailAddressValidator simplifies the code in a few spots and
feels cleaner.
Deprecated the old location in case someone is using it in a plugin.
No functionality change is in this commit.
Note: the regex used at the moment does not support using address literals, e.g.:
* localpart@[192.168.0.1]
* localpart@[2001:db8::1]
* Optional import of custom user fields from phpBB 3.1+
* Optional import of likes from phpBB3
Requires the phpBB "Thanks for posts" extension
* Fix import of bookmarks from phpBB3
* Update `created_at` of existing user
* Support mapping of phpBB forums to existing Discourse categories
This is in addition to the ability of merging phpBB forums and importing into newly created Discourse categories.
1. bbcode hashes don't always have exactly 8 characters.
2. colors aren't always hex values, it can be a color string ("red", "blue", etc).
3. The closing tag of smileys doesn't always include a `:` character (the start of the regex was already right for this particular issue)
* File.exists? is deprecated and removed in Ruby 3.2 in favor of
File.exist?
* Dir.exists? is deprecated and removed in Ruby 3.2 in favor of
Dir.exist?
The discourse base image already contains a postgres installation, so pulling a separate postgres image is a little wasteful. Using the copy of Postgres in the discourse image saves about 20 seconds on every GitHub actions run.
This commit sets up Postgres with a few performance-improving flags, which we were already using for the `rake docker:test` task (used on our internal CI system).
Some tables in the database have constraints on columns with dates. Because of them, the script for moving timestamps can fail from time to time. This PR makes the script work with such tables.
In general, in PostgreSQL it is not always possible to defer constraint checks to the transaction commit (Primary Keys and Unique Constraints can be deferred, but them should be declared as DEFERRABLE to make it possible. Indices created with CREATE UNIQUE INDEX can't be deferred at all).
Since we can't defer constraint checks, I've made it work using a little hack. For example, if we need to move all timestamps by one day, the script will move timestamps by 1000 years and one day, and then return timestamps back by 1000 years. The script use this hack only for columns that have unique constraints.
This will fix the try-reset build that failed today. Probably this going to happen again with other tables that have constraints on date columns. I'm going to modify the script to make it work without ignoring such tables. After that, the only table we're going to need to ignore will be the 2FA table.
Before I fixed that, don't hesitate to tag me if the try-reset build fail again.
Without checking if t.table_schema = '#{@schema}' the SELECT with JOIN in the script were returning every column twice in case there is a 'backup' scheme with exactly the same tables as in the 'public scheme'
We're going to use this script for updating timestamps on Try, but it can be used with a local database during development as well.
Usage:
Commands:
ruby db_timestamp_updater.rb yesterday <date> move all timestamps by x days so that <date> will be moved to yesterday
ruby db_timestamp_updater.rb 100 move all timestamps forward by 100 days
ruby db_timestamp_updater.rb -100 move all timestamps backward by 100 days
The script moves all timestamps in the database by the same amount of days forward or backward. No need to change the script if we add a new column in the future.
The more simple solution would be just to move timestamps in several tables (topics, posts, and so on). I didn't want to go that way because it could generate additional work in the future. For example, if we add a new column with a timestamp and users can see that timestamp we'd need to add that column to the script. Or, for example, if we move a post's timestamp to the future but forget to move a timestamp of topic timer or user action it can cause weird bugs.
