Why should a thread come up with 0 posts ?

[cozietoesie]

With no content and despite a rather worrying title you don't know what's being posted about. (In Relationships, this morning at about 9.30.)

On FF on a laptop.

(I've seen this before though.)

[cozietoesie]

Ah - something has come up finally. I guess they finally put some money in the server's meter?

[IonaMumsnet]

We were out of shillings again. Had to nip to the grocer's for change. Apologies!

[cozietoesie]

(I saw that the site was having a 'moment' this morning. )

[FruChristerOla]

This has been happening loads of times sporadically over months and months. Sometimes when you open a 0 thread, the OP then becomes apparent.

But sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't, just post a "I can't see your OP, there appears to be a glitch on MN, but I hope my post will then make it apparent".

Don't do what I did the first time I saw one and post "What?" (I thought it was one of those 'joke' blank posts.) It turned out to be quite a sensitive thread and my "What?" made me look like a complete arsehole.

Fortunately a MNer who knows me IRL also came onto the thread and said "Fru wouldn't post like that, it's totally out of character". I then returned to the thread, saw what had happened and then posted another post full of apologies, but saying I couldn't see the OP at all - it was blank, until someone else after me had posted.

I still cringe. Although I did start a thread in Site Stuff about it and discovered that other MNers had been similarly caught out on other threads.

[cozietoesie]

It would be interesting to know what the thread's OP saw. (Or OPs of similar threads.)

[FruChristerOla]

Ah, here's the Site Stuff thread from last October www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2202863-something-MOST-PECULIAR-is-happening-to-some-newly-started-threads (not started by me, as I now see!). So this isn't a new problem.

I've got no idea what the OP sees when they start a thread, cozie

[FruChristerOla]

Here's another one www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2423050-A-great-read-for-my-kindle - and I'm not the OP.