What??!? Doesn't opening the page imply a refresh?


I have to disable cookies when I go to Daniweb. She's sweet enough without them... &

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Today things seemed to be working. Let's see what tomorrow brings...

Why do you have to disable cookies?

I'm reasonably sure that was a bad joke by WaltP, but I could be wrong...

Don't always take things at face value.

Exactly... I use to denote satire in cases like this. I've been around long enough to know about cookies.



False alarm.... Still broke.

If you use the back button to return to the page with the first unread post link, it is still the copy of the page you saw before you went into a forum. You are looking at a cached page.

Refreshing this page updates the link to the correct location.

This has been going on for over 3 months now. And only in Software Dev, nowhere else. I am getting tired of searching for the real First Unread Post, esp when it's on a previous page.

I will continue check out other forums, but Software is rarely going to be one of them until the problem is looked at. It's too much of a PITA.

Hmm ... it only happens in Software Development? Very strange. I'm wondering if this has something to do with the fact that you visit this forum the most frequently ... I'm really not sure.

The features related to new posts and posts since last visit and marking forums read is all standard vBulletin (unhacked), and I don't use any of these features myself, to be able to fully grasp what's not working right.

Is ANYONE else experiencing this problem? Does ANYONE else notice the Software Dev category behaving differently?

Remember, you need to double click the yellow folder icon on a forum to mark that forum read.

Narue, I know that you use these features - have you noticed them not working correctly?

The way I process all the forums:
1) I open DW in Software index using FireFox
2) Middle click on the forum name to open the forum in a new tab
3) Double Click on the folder to mark forum read
4) Change to the forum tab
5) Middle-click on each "First Post" icon to open each desired thread in new tab
When I nav to each tab, the last post posted is usually the active post. I might have 1 to 10 posts above that post, all of which were posted after I left DW, usually the night before.

If you need to log in to my account to see what's happening to me, be my guest. I won't return to Software forum until tomorrow night so tomorrow afternoon you can see what I'm up against. Hopefully.

Would seeing my DW cookies help? Especially if you don't see what I see?

I won't have a chance to look into this until later today, but in the meantime, maybe this will help. This is a copy/paste of information related to Read Thread Marking from the vBulletin control panel:

This option controls how threads and forums are marked as read.

1. Inactivity/Cookie Based - once a user has been inactive for a certain amount of time (the value of the session timeout option) all threads and forums are considered read. Individual threads are marked as read within a session via cookies.
   
   This option is how all versions of vBulletin before 3.5 functioned.
   
   
2. Database (no automatic forum marking) - this option uses the database to store thread and forum read times. This allows accurate read markers to be kept indefinitely. However, in order for a forum to be marked read when all threads are read, the user must view the list of threads for that forum.
   
   This option is more space and processor intensive than inactivity-based marking.
   
   
3. Database (automatic forum marking) - this option is the same as a previous option, but forums are automatically marked as read when the last new thread is read.
   
   This is the most usable option for end users, but most processor intensive.

We have been using option 3 for roughly a year and a half. Before that (aka pre-vBulletin 3.5) we were using option 1, as it was the only thing available back then. We decided to switch because allowing it to be database-based instead of cookie-based allowed us to keep track of what a user has read as they move from home to work machines, or multiple machines at home, or when they clear their cookies, as many of our users frequently do. However, as mentioned, this switch happened a very long time ago, nothing within the past few months.

woho,out of my league,looking foreward to using this site