Actually a new theory after thinking about it. It seems like after posting, a thread is provisioned in the bbs with an id. Could it be that:
- Post is made
- Request is made to provision bbs comment thread with a short timeout.
- If step 2 completes within the timeout, post is updated with link to comment thread.
If step 2 doesn’t complete within timeout, post is never updated with link. Step 2 always completes, but sometimes not fast enough for the timeout @orenwolf?
ETA:
And thinking out loud here, since it seems like the bbs links work even without the id as part of the url… maybe set the comments link to bbs.boingboing.net/t/slug link on initial post (where slug is based on the title) so whether there is a timeout or not, it goes to the right place.
