Recommendations count and order are unstable

(see original thread http://www.librarything.com/topic/68089)

"the numbers again don't match between the message on my home pg telling me how many new recommendations there are - vs. the actual count shown when I click on it"

"Sometimes a new recommendation is inserted in the same place where a No Thanks was issued rather than appearing at the top of the list."

For two reasons, I'm going to set this to "Needs discussion."

First, because I want to test that new status out.

Second, because I want to ask the question "how should it work?" Should it give you the number of requests in the last X days, since you last saw your home page or since you clicked through to the recommendations page?

Do me a favor and don't change the status of this, even if you can.

Part A for Discussion: Since you last clicked through to the recommendations page.

Part B: I don't think this needs discussion?
"Sometimes a new recommendation is inserted in the same place where a No Thanks was issued rather than appearing at the top of the list."

I'd prefer since last clicking through to the recommendations page.

Okay, so if you never click through to recommendations, your new count equals your count, right?

Exactly.

Agreed - should be since I clicked through last.

And when you arrive, it should be what? Nothing new? If it shows the ones that are new, does a simple refresh invalidate them all as new?

Speaking only for myself, my home page should tell me how many new recommendation there are since I last looked at the recommendations page. If I then click through to the recommendations page it should show the exact same number as new as it did on my home page - the number since the previous time I looked at the recommendations page.

I'd be fine if refreshing the recommendations page then invalidated them all as new. (That is, if I hit refresh on the recommendations page, it then showed nothing new)

I agree with #9.

It should work similarly to the way the yellow New flag does on Connection News. I think that one may last for more than one view (maybe a few hours?) but it's definitely been expired by the next day.

I agree that the number should reset after I've visited the recommendations page, and the numbers on the homepage and on the recommendations page should be the same.

I always find that there are usually a bunch of new automatic recommendations that haven't been counted scattered through about the last third of my list. Clicking on "new recommendations" doesn't show them together, and I always have to scroll through the whole list. So the new recommendations link should actually include all the recommendations that weren't there the last time I checked.

This from 11 is the same as Part B in the original post: "I always find that there are usually a bunch of new automatic recommendations that haven't been counted scattered through about the last third of my list. Clicking on "new recommendations" doesn't show them together, and I always have to scroll through the whole list. So the new recommendations link should actually include all the recommendations that weren't there the last time I checked."

Not 5 minutes ago I went to the recs page, saw I had 3 new recommendations, sorted the list by date.....and all 3 were at the very bottom of the list.

From http://www.librarything.com/topic/99514

If I go to my recommendations page it reports currently that I have one new recommendation, but when I click the "show 1 new recommendations" it actually shows no recommendations at all. (Also note the spelling error by the way).

Was this fixed along with the other Recommendations problem today?