Read or unread - The Gremlins!

lacroupade · 09-03-2009, 22:02

Paul; I've occasionally noticed that a bunch of unread threads spontaneously become 'read' before I've got to them - similarly, and it happened at 830pm tongiht, a bunch I've already read - including some that have me as the last updater - become 'unread' again...strange....

Paul

Deleted Member S · 09-03-2009, 22:12

Yeah that has happened to me a few time

wolf · 09-03-2009, 22:25

pesky gremlins!!!

zippy656 · 09-03-2009, 22:48

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Originally Posted by Sweety

Yeah that has happened to me a few time

and me, thought i was doing some thing ODD

Bat21 · 09-03-2009, 23:27

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Originally Posted by lacroupade

Paul; I've occasionally noticed that a bunch of unread threads spontaneously become 'read' before I've got to them - similarly, and it happened at 830pm tongiht, a bunch I've already read - including some that have me as the last updater - become 'unread' again...strange....

Paul

Once you click the New Posts button you have 900 seconds (15 minutes) to read them before they become read.

The reason being, each time you visit the site here you activate the 900 second cookie which starts ticking.

Are you sure a read one suddenly becomes unread? the only explanation I can come up with is your ISP maybe caching previously viewed pages, unless you are ported via an AOL proxy squid I would have thought this unlikely

zippy656 · 09-03-2009, 23:31

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Originally Posted by Bat21

Once you click the New Posts button you have 900 seconds (15 minutes) to read them before they become read.

The reason being, each time you visit the site here you activate the 900 second cookie which starts ticking.

Are you sure a read one suddenly becomes unread? the only explanation I can come up with is your ISP maybe caching previously viewed pages, unless you are ported via an AOL proxy squid I would have thought this unlikely

can you make it longer? the time i mean

lacroupade · 09-03-2009, 23:35

Definitely posts became unread again that I'd just looked at - three of them had my update as the last one so should have been 'read'...I had to go into each one again (about eight of them) to get them to show up as 'read' again in the Todays Posts menu item...

I use BTInternet, so assume the AOL proxy a non-starter?

I'd agree with Zips request about the time-out, should be a bit longer

Bat21 · 09-03-2009, 23:49

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Originally Posted by zippy656

can you make it longer? the time i mean

I can, but that can cause other problems.

Let's give it a go... I have extended it to 1200 seconds (20 minutes)

zippy656 · 10-03-2009, 07:04

thats great,

lacroupade · 10-03-2009, 08:23

Bat - if I read some of my unread posts then log off, does the clock start again when I log back in, and are the other unread items preserved as it were?

extreme-4x4 · 10-03-2009, 11:01

firefox. works if you open another tab..... you dont miss a thing

lacroupade · 10-03-2009, 11:05

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Originally Posted by extreme-4x4

firefox. works if you open another tab..... you dont miss a thing

You mean another tab for the one topic? i.e. the old right click and 'open in new tab' routine? But according to Bat, even if you leave the original Todays Posts topic list open, it times out after 15 mins (or 20 now of course).....better get yer stop watch out Colin..

extreme-4x4 · 10-03-2009, 11:10

you loose it if you refresh....

Bat21 · 10-03-2009, 11:58

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Originally Posted by lacroupade

Bat - if I read some of my unread posts then log off, does the clock start again when I log back in, and are the other unread items preserved as it were?

If you click the log out button then the system thinks you have left the building. When you next log back on and click the New Posts button, it will show you all new posts since you last logged off (I.E. when you clicked the log out button).

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Originally Posted by lacroupade

You mean another tab for the one topic? i.e. the old right click and 'open in new tab' routine? But according to Bat, even if you leave the original Todays Posts topic list open, it times out after 15 mins (or 20 now of course).....better get yer stop watch out Colin..

If you have one tab open showing the new posts, then just open a new tab for each post you want to view... leaving the tab with the new posts unchanged, hope this makes sense

lacroupade · 10-03-2009, 12:46

Bat does simply closing the F/fox tab/window leave me logged in, and if so for how long? That might be part of the issue...

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09-03-2009, 22:12	#2
Deleted Member S Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,711	Yeah that has happened to me a few time

09-03-2009, 23:35	#7
lacroupade Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: All hail to the Glove of Love... Posts: 9,212	Definitely posts became unread again that I'd just looked at - three of them had my update as the last one so should have been 'read'...I had to go into each one again (about eight of them) to get them to show up as 'read' again in the Todays Posts menu item... I use BTInternet, so assume the AOL proxy a non-starter? I'd agree with Zips request about the time-out, should be a bit longer

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zippy656 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Devizes Wiltshire Vehicle: Nissan Note Ntec 1.5 Posts: 14,136	thats great,

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lacroupade Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: All hail to the Glove of Love... Posts: 9,212	Bat - if I read some of my unread posts then log off, does the clock start again when I log back in, and are the other unread items preserved as it were?

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extreme-4x4 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: WALES Posts: 6,295	firefox. works if you open another tab..... you dont miss a thing

10-03-2009, 11:10	#13
extreme-4x4 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: WALES Posts: 6,295	you loose it if you refresh....

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lacroupade Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: All hail to the Glove of Love... Posts: 9,212	Bat does simply closing the F/fox tab/window leave me logged in, and if so for how long? That might be part of the issue...