I logged in and it said last login was 12:34 a.m. Read one thread. Went back to CP and it said last login was 8:03 a.m. I had one new subscribed thread left to read. Ironically, it was this one!
Zapped. At 6:23 pm the board claims my last log in was at 6:23 pm today. Naturally, there’s not a single unread thread for me to view.
Possibly a record. Zapped twice over about 90 minutes.
I’ve noticed the Board and regular Straight Dope page going down many days at about 2pm our time, which is 2am in Chicago. Always at that time and always for about 20 minutes, today included.
Maybe a record since they “fixed” the problem a while back (a year or so? I can’t be bothered doing the detective work). Certainly not a record for the period when SDMB was at its worst.
I would just like to say that I, for one, welcome Siam Sam’s posts. Kind of like checking in, as comforting as the regularity of the sun’s rising in the east. (Does it do that in the Far East as well?)
I was also fascinated to learn that there are boards on pigeons devoted to those of particular ages.
A friend of mine owns, breeds, and flys Birmingham Rollers, pigeons that do somersaults in the air. A message board he used to read had constant bickering between fanciers of the conformation breeds, the homers, and the acrobatic birds.
Maybe if we get more subscribers we can upgrade*.
*Note: if this link has been posted already, to hell with whoever linked it for ruining the greatest joke ever
Zapped again.
And me, just now.
I was hit last night…first time in a while.
Sort of zapped. A handful of unread threads are marked as Read among all the other Unread ones. Weird.
Follow-up: All the threads marked as Read were in MPSIMS. Before logging in, I did take a quick look in that forum, opening only one thread. Then I logged in. That must have been enough for it to mark every subscribed in that forum as Read.
Hmm, what if you deleted all SDMB cookies before logging in?
I’ll certainly try that next time. But this is not the reason I get completely zapped at times,as I usually don’t take a look in the forums (fora?) before logging in.
Zapped again. Completely this time. Frequency increasing.
If you’re lazy, you could try only browsing in incognito/private mode.
And how would that help? “Last Visited” is clearly not stored as a cookie since I can switch back and forth between Firefox on Linux, Firefox on Windows, and IE on Windows (I only go into IE when I have to!) and in the past have been able to switch between physical computers and it remembers when I last visited SDMB (except when it hiccups).
Wow. Zapped on the very first thread today.
Then what caused this?