I think its like htat.. as long as you log in and log out, it will mark all your threads as read... I dunno if the software is suppose to be like this or if its a glitch, but it happens to me too.eaglecatcher wrote:lots of times, I will log on, browse about 2 topics, and have to leave, and then I exit out, and when I sign back on, it says they were all read,
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ok i think i have figured this behavior out. well sort of. i think i know what it is but not why or how exactly.
it seems to have something messing up in the session cookie. sometimes logging in and out works, but sometimes not. sometimes closing and restarting the browser works. but clearing the session cookie directly seems to do the trick. you can clear just session cookies with the web developer toolbar firefox extension, or you can just clear all cookies. it will mark all the current posts as read.
just thought i'd share.
it seems to have something messing up in the session cookie. sometimes logging in and out works, but sometimes not. sometimes closing and restarting the browser works. but clearing the session cookie directly seems to do the trick. you can clear just session cookies with the web developer toolbar firefox extension, or you can just clear all cookies. it will mark all the current posts as read.
just thought i'd share.
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It's not a problem with any of them, or rather, a small problem with all of them combined. The way the forum determines your new posts, your/SS's Internet connection (page no-loads), and the way your browser works (page caching).
phpBB has an extremely weird way of determining what you have read or not (it actually doesn't, read on). Basically, it takes the time you were last on, takes the current time, then marks all posts made in between those times that you have not read yet as "new." It only does this once. Once you read the topic (not posts, topics) it marks it as "not new" (that is important to note, it's "not new", not "read"). If you close the browser or log out, then revisit SS, it repeats the "marking" process: Takes the time you were last on (10 seconds ago), takes the current time, marks all the posts made within that time "new" (which is none), and thus, you have this "problem." It is based on time, not whether you've read it or not. Think of it this way: those orange icons mark what is new since your last visit, not unread items.
phpBB has an extremely weird way of determining what you have read or not (it actually doesn't, read on). Basically, it takes the time you were last on, takes the current time, then marks all posts made in between those times that you have not read yet as "new." It only does this once. Once you read the topic (not posts, topics) it marks it as "not new" (that is important to note, it's "not new", not "read"). If you close the browser or log out, then revisit SS, it repeats the "marking" process: Takes the time you were last on (10 seconds ago), takes the current time, marks all the posts made within that time "new" (which is none), and thus, you have this "problem." It is based on time, not whether you've read it or not. Think of it this way: those orange icons mark what is new since your last visit, not unread items.
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violinandbass87
jomo, what will clearing all cookies do? what do cookies do online?jomotopia wrote:ok i think i have figured this behavior out. well sort of. i think i know what it is but not why or how exactly.
it seems to have something messing up in the session cookie. sometimes logging in and out works, but sometimes not. sometimes closing and restarting the browser works. but clearing the session cookie directly seems to do the trick. you can clear just session cookies with the web developer toolbar firefox extension, or you can just clear all cookies. it will mark all the current posts as read.
just thought i'd share.
hmmmm i want a cookie
*ambles off in search of cookies to eat...*
