Originally Posted by mfyvie (Post 1328654)

Hmm, strange. I don't know enough about the template hook system to comment, but I would have thought that just adding the hook would be enough, but maybe there's more to it than that. Well at least you've resolved the problem manually in any case.

Originally Posted by JimpsEd (Post 1328730)

Any chance of having a move threads feature rather than deleting them? We have a 'Litter Tray' forum to move threads to instead of deleting.

Originally Posted by mfyvie (Post 1328654)

This is most strange. The relevant code can be found in the plugin called "Insert into templates" at postbit_display_start:

The php concatenation operator ".=" is used there. This means, append the contents, rather than replace them. This seems to work correctly on other systems, but I've no idea why it isn't working on yours. Basically what is happening is that something else should resetting that hook on each iteration, but that isn't happening, so this hook keeps growing and growing as you proceed down the page. Are you running an older version of vbulletin (bug maybe?) or perhaps another hack is causing this behaviour?

You can work around it by changing the ".=" to just "=" but this will kill any other mods that might be using this template hook (though you probably don't have any).

Originally Posted by mfyvie (Post 1328839)

Apophis - I also run 3.6.7 PL1, so unlikely an issue there. Try disabling those products just for a few minutes (and any others that use other hooks in postbit, not just display_start) and see if that resolves it. From there it should be easy to pinpoint.

Originally Posted by mfyvie (Post 1328861)

Ok, in that case I'm out of ideas :-) When I get a chance I'll have to take a look at alternative ways of implementing that, in the meantime you could try my suggestion of changing ".=" to "=" to fix it. Let's see if anyone else reports the same issue.