Wtf error?

Logged into an account I logged into yesterday. 65535 new messages, when I clicked it, only one. Wth?

Lol.
Same Happened To Me.
Was Like e.o?
Clicked It With No Messages.

Just some gaia database glitch. Its been happening to random people for years.

Oh yeah I remember those xd when that was like 'in' I made a stupid sig, but then I realized that it was really stupid and I deleted it

Polka Dots wrote:

'in' I made a stupid sig, but then I realized that it was really stupid and I deleted it

Lol wut makes no sence

Yeah it's usually on old accounts

yea that happens on old accounts

65535 is a special number in programming. It's 2 to the power of summat. It's the maximum value of certain numbers (i.e. you can't have more than that many PMs), used to store large numbers with small amounts of data. e.g. you can store all numbers from 0 to 255 with a single character, instead of using three to type out 255. For each increment you add to that, 1024, 65535, etc., you use an extra character, but three characters (or however many) is much smaller than 65535, especially when you're storing data for every Gaia account ever. It adds up.

SO! The process for reading how many PMs you got bugged up. It read the max amount possible instead of total you have. I assume it tried to read the number of PMs that everyone has in total, instead of just the user, and it maxed out at 65535.

Just tech shit that none of you probably care about.

Nice explanation... I figured it was something like that, but hadnt looked into it.
Btw, I never follow pokemon anymore, but I think I just saw one in your sig that looked like an easter island statue with a mustache.

Smithno13 wrote:

Nice explanation... I figured it was something like that, but hadnt looked into it.
Btw, I never follow pokemon anymore, but I think I just saw one in your sig that looked like an easter island statue with a mustache.

I don't follow it either, but indeed you did.


IDK the name. Just Google'd "pokemon easter island." 'Nosepass' comes to mind, now that I think of it.

I have had this error before too, but only once. It really isn't rare, or on old accounts. When it was popular, people would take pictures and make signatures and such with the images.

Same i was like When I clicked on it 0 new messages

That hasn't happened to you before now Boob?

Happens all the time to me... It is an error in there coding skills or something...

EDIT: Gamechief seems to know why

GAMEchief wrote:

65535 is a special number in programming. It's 2 to the power of summat. It's the maximum value of certain numbers (i.e. you can't have more than that many PMs), used to store large numbers with small amounts of data. e.g. you can store all numbers from 0 to 255 with a single character, instead of using three to type out 255. For each increment you add to that, 1024, 65535, etc., you use an extra character, but three characters (or however many) is much smaller than 65535, especially when you're storing data for every Gaia account ever. It adds up.

SO! The process for reading how many PMs you got bugged up. It read the max amount possible instead of total you have. I assume it tried to read the number of PMs that everyone has in total, instead of just the user, and it maxed out at 65535.

Just tech shit that none of you probably care about.

Or probably that we won't understand? . _ .
I'm still scratching my head with everything you typed, OHH I'm such a loser xd but anyway, you're the one who programs pcs & stuff xd