Anybody else?

[Marla]

I'm having a problem where for the last few days or so, threads that I haven't read yet are being marked as read sometimes, so I don't realize new posts have been made. It happened to me this evening with the thread I made under Rhacodactylus, where there were 4 replies but the section didn't show any unread threads and I only knew there were replies because I was sending the link to Chris. Is this stuff happening to anyone else?

[JamminJonah]

yup! It hasn't happened today but yesterday it was happening. Godfather has been making adjustmens though so that's probably what it is.

[Wizill]

that feature has never worked quite right for me, Marla. sometimes it will say that i have all these posts to read, when I know for a fact i actually don't... and i even recall one time i left for 3 whole days, came home and the site claimed there were no new posts. odd, eh?

[Marla]

That is odd. It had been working great for me since the problem with constantly getting logged out went away, but it now it's messed up sporadically. Weird.

[Smulkin]

LOL - seems I have about 3-5 minutes after hitting the site until they are all marked as read - it's been messin with me!

[The_Godfather]

Sometimes if you open the board in one window it'll show all the forums with new stuff as unseen. But if you open the board in a different window it marks them as read. So long as you stay within a single window...

Happens to me all the time, must be a cookie based thing.

[Marla]

The only time I ever open a second window is to search threads or find a photo gallery link, and I open them directly by right-clicking the link and selecting 'Open in new window' (as opposed to opening a forum window and going from there), so that is definitely not the cause of my issue. I suppose it could theoretically be a cookie issue, though.

[JLC]

I've had that problem for ....well...ever since I started coming here. I've found that it's related to two things, primarily. Having the forum open in two different windows can screw it up...although if I'm careful, I can get away with it. The other thing that causes it most often for me, is my DSL connection. It "burps"...or drops the connection for anywhere from 10-60 seconds. If it does that, then all the "unread" forums/posts show as read...as if I'm starting from scratch. And occassionally it will get goofy and I have no reason why. I've started paying more attention to the date/time-stamps to find threads I haven't read.

[Marla]

Odd, because I'm on stable, "always-on" connections both here and at work and if they go down, they go seriously down, not for a matter of seconds or milliseconds. I guess it will just have to remain one of life's mysteries.