Hi and welcome

Well, I haven't logged into the C Forum since my last post in this thread on the 18th. Just went to the "first post" in a thread and this was it.

I guess we're not even going to be looking at this situation so I will not continue this thread. I may visit the Software forum some, but searching for the first post in a long thread (6 or more posts I suppose) is not likely so I'll probably just look at short threads.

As mentioned in my second to last post, I have been looking into it. I think I may have come on to something that might explain what you're experiencing.

To conserve database storage, threads are automatically marked read if they have not been accessed for 10 days (at that point, they're considered abandoned as it seems pointless to endlessly store in the database when every single user last visited every single thread, so we only store the last 10 days worth for each user).

Well, I missed the entire thread posted above, 19 posts in 5 1/2 days. I am missing posts less than 24 hours after moving on. So unless that 10 days for me is 2 time units short (10 minutes) that's obviously not the problem.

That is the only thread I looked at. Did you see the problem when you logged into my account? As I asked before, would looking at my cookies help? I believe that is the only thing on my computer that if there's an error would have this affect. But DaniWeb writes the cookies.

I'm still trying to learn how vBulletin tracks thread marking times. I know it's entirely database-based but I'm not 100% sure whether cookies are used as a backup if the database turns up no results.

Nope, as I suspected, cookies aren't used at all. Can you please give me an up to date list of roughly 5 threads that you've visited within the past 10 days along with when you suspect that you last visited them? I'll see if the time/dates you think match up with what the database thinks.

Remember, don't click into the threads when you give me the list, otherwise the database will just say they were all last visited today.

It would be easier if I just click on a few and tomorrow night you can look at them. I definitely don't remember what I visited 5 days ago. Would that work?

It would Cool. However, it would have to be existing threads that you visited, then hours later other people replied to, and you never went back to them.

On another note, if you don't remember what you visited 5 days ago, then how do you know that the system is broken?

Happens all the time!


C'Mon, I've explained that over and over! If I haven't visited any thread in 5 days, there are enough new ones that I should see pretty much only post #1. I always see the last post.

IOW:
1) If there's a thread I've visited before with 11 replies, and the last post I saw was #3, clicking "first unread post" gets me to post #12, not post #4.
2) As above, I never visited the thread, and the post I was taken to was not #1 but #19.

That's how I know it's broken.

Next post, list of threads I'm visiting with the last post number in the thread.