Forum error

HungryCrackPot · Post by **HungryCrackPot** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:21 pm

Whenever I log in to the main page then enter the forum, it says I have viewed every topic already. Unless this forum is incredibly dead, I think it's a problem.
SURE, I could read EVERY topic to see which ones were updated, but I'd rather have the problem fixed.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:31 pm

Clear your cookies.

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:57 am

I don't think its a problem. I think its todo with the last time you logged-in.

The first time:
If you log-in it will say you have read no posts. When you log out it records teh time you logged out.

When you log-in it pulls up the last time you logged on and then any new posts from the last time were were logged on are new.

Its not nessasarly unread posts, but posts that are new since the last time you were logged on.

Yes, clearing you cookies will get all posts to come up as unread.

HungryCrackPot · Post by **HungryCrackPot** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:33 pm

FYI: I cleared the cookies last night. Still had the same problem just now though.

Nekoboy Sal · Post by **Nekoboy Sal** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:52 am

HungryCrackPot wrote:FYI: I cleared the cookies last night. Still had the same problem just now though.

Did you read what I said?

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:52 am

Nekoboy Sal wrote:
HungryCrackPot wrote:FYI: I cleared the cookies last night. Still had the same problem just now though.
Did you read what I said?

Did you read what he said?

He said, in his very first post, that all the threads are viewed as already read when he logs in. This means that he sees no thread as a new thread. You had it the other way around. No offense, but maybe you should read more carefully before you accuse others of not reading carefully.

HungryCrackPot · Post by **HungryCrackPot** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:08 pm

flint_the_dwarf wrote:
Nekoboy Sal wrote:
HungryCrackPot wrote:FYI: I cleared the cookies last night. Still had the same problem just now though.
Did you read what I said?
Did you read what he said?

He said, in his very first post, that all the threads are viewed as already read when he logs in. This means that he sees no thread as a new thread. You had it the other way around. No offense, but maybe you should read more carefully before you accuse others of not reading carefully.

Thank you. You saved me a lot of typing, and managed to leave out the insults I would have thrown in.
ANYWAYS, I had to run several programs last night, including a scan disk and such (do it every Saturday night), and I come back and all is good. THIS THREAD IS NO MORE!

HungryCrackPot · Post by **HungryCrackPot** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:26 pm

Thread ressurection:
My god, I get home after several hours (like 10) of biking, and it did it again.
I dont want to give my harddrive a handjob from hell everytime I want to view this forum properly (I can already see the Admins using this as a "GO AWAY" message). Any thoughts?

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:38 pm

What browser are you using? Have you tried it with other browsers? Because I don't really see how it could be anything other than a browser issue.

Although... for me, threads are always marked read when I first open up my browser, if I didn't log out before I close the browser. I never log out; I'm always logged in. And I rarely shut my browser (I use Opera with tabs). But sometimes my computer freezes and I have to restart, etc. Usually when I open the page back up again, even though I'm logged in automatically, all the threads (even the ones I haven't read) are marked as read.

I'm not sure if that's at all relevent to your problem, but that's the only circumstance in which all the threads (read or unread) are marked as read... unless I click that button on the bottom of the page that marks all forums read.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:14 am

Check your cookie accept settings, you may be accepting session cookies only instead of the permanent ones that the forum use for tracking what posts you've read.