Problem with read threads
 

Perhaps this is the wrong place, but I did search around.

l am having trouble with the forums (1 spend most of the time in SH3) not properly noting what I have read and what I haven't. The why it is working now seems to be precisely the same as if I wasn't logged in at all. This is really annoying and makes it hard to keep trade of things. :damn: I have tested this on multiple computers with multiple OS's and multiple browsers each. All behave the same, even after clearing client side data, such as cookies.

Any ideas?

[EDIT] For example, this thread is marked as unread.

You want someone to fix this, right? :cool:

I don't know why it is doing that. Check with Zachstar and see if he knows.

When did I become the expert on forums?

The forum with me seems to be marking topics as unread as well I really have not had the time to mess with settings and seeing what is up yet.

Sorry.

Any chance you could clear the server side cookies for my account?

You're not, but since you think domain owners should have to cover the costs of the website, I figured I better get you involved to help. :lol:

Commander Gizmo, I will run some database maint. tonight, maybe that will fix it for you.

Neal

Commander Gizzmoe, what browser are you using?

I use IE7, IE6, Firefox, and Opera on XP and Vista. To explain: I create websites and have test and virtual machines set up for this purpose. I just ran through them again, and all behave the same. Actually, that is a bit of an accomplishment itself.

Ok well Gizmo was not involved and you wasted his time with your spat with me. You got a problem with my statement? You ought to have posted in the topic involved.

There's no spat here, I'm just looking for additional resources to help.

Sounds like you have invested a lot of time in this. I completed the db maint., if you can clear your cookies and offline cache, etc. let me know how it works for you now.

thanls
Neal

Cookies and offline cache deleted. Indeed, now it appears that the entire forum has been read, though SH3 Mod Workshop has unread posts. I will have to mess around a bit and then wait and see if it reverts to old behavior. I will update on results in a few hours.

Thanks for the fast response Neal!

Sure thing, I hope it works. I am not an expert with vBulletin, to be honest. If I can get it to work, I consider it something like a miracle!

Everything is working normaly again Neal. Thanks for the fix!

Would it be possible to set the page expiration time a bit shorter for the forum pages? Right now, I have to click the favorite to go to the page I want, then refresh it. This is probalby the old IE bug where it is too stupid to know when to request new data from the server instead of using the cached data. A short expiration time should tell it to drop the cache.

Or maybe you set it up that way to save your server from some work? Since I am going to refresh the page anyway, it doesn't save anything on my account. But then, I'm not your typical user.

Oh no! Not again!
 

Sorry Neal, but the forums are back to marking things unread. Could you look into it again? Thanks!

For what it's worth, Commander Gizmo is not the only one with this problem. I'm using IE and approximately 9/10 of the time the forums fail to acknowledge that I have read a thread - it's currently listing posts I read last night at around 10 as unread (It's now 10am local time).

I believe that it is a site as opposed to a user related issue, as I also frequent another board using VBulletin software and there has been no occurence of this issue on that site.

You are probably right. Try using the Thread Tools in the upper right to mark the forum read before you leave.

thanks
Neal

Thanks for the tip Neal. I would like to know that you are still looking into the problem though. Might this be the case?

Also, part of this issue is that at some point (after a period of time or each morning/evening?) most threads are marked read, except for the ones I've actually read. Basically the behavior one would expect a guest to see I believe.

I noticed this problem start a while ago and posted a thread, and Rockin' Robbins also noticed that the forums were not remembering which threads he had read. He was using different OSs and different browsers.

I too am using multiple machines and diferent browsers. For example, on my machine at work, I can read a bunch of threads and then go home, whereupon my home PC upon logging in, displays the threads as unread. This never used to happen, so I would imagine that some part of the forum software that tracks what threas usernames have read has been broken or disabled - that's the only way it could have ever worked and is therefore not browser or OS related. I have tested this on different machines, different OSs and different browsers and the results are the same, subsim doesn't remember what threads I have read, but my individual browser does. This causes a problem when I move machines / locations.

Yeah, obviously something somewhere in the vBulletin stuff needs to be checked. I am reading through the support forums, will be trying things. thanks

A bit of additional info - This started at exactly the same the default colour scheme changed from black to white. I'm assuming that this was the result of a forum software update, which would make sense, as they wreak havoc on previously undisturbed settings like 'track posts'.