New Post Icons
New Post Icons
Recently (since yesterday sometime I think) some threads always have the New Post icon no matter how many times I view them. This only happens for some threads. At the The Breaks Battle for Supremacy thread exhibits this behaviour.
I have tried
- viewing the threads (duh)
- posting in the threads (still marked as hacin new content event though I was the last to post)
- closing my browser and looking again
- logging in and out
- using the link to mark all posts as read. This fixed it up for half a day or so but eventually different threads started exhibiting the same behaviour.
Any tips?
I have tried
- viewing the threads (duh)
- posting in the threads (still marked as hacin new content event though I was the last to post)
- closing my browser and looking again
- logging in and out
- using the link to mark all posts as read. This fixed it up for half a day or so but eventually different threads started exhibiting the same behaviour.
Any tips?
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Caching would be one or the other... usually I see it as a problem in IE.
Try dumping all of your cookies on your system and retrying. I noticed Firefox exhibits odd behaviour when its loaded up on cookies, does not properly store them.
maybe it's spyware?
could be anything, but sounds basic browser fundamental instead of a db issue
Try dumping all of your cookies on your system and retrying. I noticed Firefox exhibits odd behaviour when its loaded up on cookies, does not properly store them.
maybe it's spyware?
could be anything, but sounds basic browser fundamental instead of a db issue
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well, shit happens. computers are shit and the internet likes to spread shit around. one dodgy site can do a lot of damage.
somebody tried to add me to their myspace friends list the other day, you go to look at their profile and their page is embedded in junk. Click on anything, such as view pics, or see friends, and it takes you to a nasty porn site with tons of crap it tries to load.
security flaws open up where you need to update your browser. if you havent updated your browser recently maybe that's the issue.
some Qs:
- do you regularly run spyware programs like Adaware and/or Spybot?
- have you updated your browser in the past 1-2 months?
- did you update windows update in the past week or so when the last round of security flaws were announced?
- have you been on any torrentz or p2p sites?
somebody tried to add me to their myspace friends list the other day, you go to look at their profile and their page is embedded in junk. Click on anything, such as view pics, or see friends, and it takes you to a nasty porn site with tons of crap it tries to load.
security flaws open up where you need to update your browser. if you havent updated your browser recently maybe that's the issue.
some Qs:
- do you regularly run spyware programs like Adaware and/or Spybot?
- have you updated your browser in the past 1-2 months?
- did you update windows update in the past week or so when the last round of security flaws were announced?
- have you been on any torrentz or p2p sites?
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it's a tabbing issue - I've seen it in Opera, Safari, Firefox (and the other Mozilla offshoots). only the frontmost tab in the window marks the thread being viewed as 'seen'. not sure if it's a PHP session or a cookie issue, but it's definitely reproducible.jbs wrote:Yeah for sure.system wrote:jbs - are you using multiple tabs while you're browsing?
Not since I shut it down a restarted ages ago though.
I cleared all cookies and marked all threads read, and now it seems to be working again - but for how long?
it's not spy/mal/whateverware related.
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- have your browser open for over an hour.
- visit ~50 sites in that time, as well as multiple pages from each one.
- stay on MB.C for about 30 minutes, launching 8+ tabs from, say, the 'Newest Posts' page.
- repeat step 3.
DRS wrote:It’s uplifting while we drift through time,
‘cause we keep pushing the vibe.
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it's not specific to the browser disk cache. tab-based browsing is a relatively new technology and the HTTP requests differ slightly from 'standard' browsing. phpBB uses sessions strongly in tracking user history and, from the experience I have with that part of the code base, doesn't seem to write part of the session data to the DB.
phpBB only sets two cookies as well. the rest is done in sessions.
universal sea - I don't think it's worth wasting your time.
phpBB only sets two cookies as well. the rest is done in sessions.
universal sea - I don't think it's worth wasting your time.
DRS wrote:It’s uplifting while we drift through time,
‘cause we keep pushing the vibe.
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i wasn't planning on it... tried to help and thats about it.
I've used tabs for 1-2 years without problems, other than firefox doing dopey things because I have thousands of cookies, such as logging me out from all sites because of that kind of overload.
I can see the php sessions causing problems, I am a senior php programmer, and don't use php sessions at all, they seem problematic. Instead I use homemade proprietary user logging which is way more accurate than cookies and less tricky to work with than sessions, without anything being stored on the client other than one cookie identifying who the user is.
good luck to all encountering this issue.
I've used tabs for 1-2 years without problems, other than firefox doing dopey things because I have thousands of cookies, such as logging me out from all sites because of that kind of overload.
I can see the php sessions causing problems, I am a senior php programmer, and don't use php sessions at all, they seem problematic. Instead I use homemade proprietary user logging which is way more accurate than cookies and less tricky to work with than sessions, without anything being stored on the client other than one cookie identifying who the user is.
good luck to all encountering this issue.
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this is going off topic.
PHP's session management is good. there were problems relating to sessions not being concluded cleanly, but these issues were resolved some time ago (~4.0.3). I don't see any reason not to use them. session management supports the methods you describe.
PHP's session management is good. there were problems relating to sessions not being concluded cleanly, but these issues were resolved some time ago (~4.0.3). I don't see any reason not to use them. session management supports the methods you describe.
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‘cause we keep pushing the vibe.
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system wrote:it's a tabbing issue - I've seen it in Opera, Safari, Firefox (and the other Mozilla offshoots). only the frontmost tab in the window marks the thread being viewed as 'seen'. not sure if it's a PHP session or a cookie issue, but it's definitely reproducible.jbs wrote:Yeah for sure.system wrote:jbs - are you using multiple tabs while you're browsing?
Not since I shut it down a restarted ages ago though.
I cleared all cookies and marked all threads read, and now it seems to be working again - but for how long?
it's not spy/mal/whateverware related.
i encounter this a fair bit as well. i'm a tab whore from way back.
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locking is hard, let's go shopping.system wrote:it's not specific to the browser disk cache. tab-based browsing is a relatively new technology and the HTTP requests differ slightly from 'standard' browsing. phpBB uses sessions strongly in tracking user history and, from the experience I have with that part of the code base, doesn't seem to write part of the session data to the DB.
phpBB only sets two cookies as well. the rest is done in sessions.
universal sea - I don't think it's worth wasting your time.
myspace / too much! / photos (flickr) / photos (tumblr)
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