What's going on with this missing thread on the PF home page?

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A thread is appearing as the most recent in the Differential Geometry forum on the PF home page, but it is missing from the forum view. Users can access the thread through a direct link, yet some post numbers, including post #1, are not visible. The initial post discusses confusion about the displacement operator and its relation to scalars. Participants express varying levels of understanding regarding the issue. The discussion highlights a potential glitch or display error on the forum.
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On the PF home page, this thread shows up as the most recent under the Differential Geometry forum. If one clicks on the forum, the thread isn't there, even though one can get into the thread by clicking on the specific link. Some post numbers seem to be missing from the thread, e.g, I don't see a post #1.

Just wondering what's going on... :oldconfused:
 
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Shyan said:
I see no problem!
Hmm. Must be me then. Who do you see as the author of the first post in that thread?
 
dyn and this is the first post:
dyn said:
Hi . I've just encountered something called the displacement operator which is the exponential of a parameter multiplied by a vector but I thought the argument of an exponential had to be a scalar. Is this not true ?
 
Shyan said:
dyn and this is the first post: [...]
Thanks. I think I see the problem now.

Cheers.
 
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