And zapped again. Almost every time I log on now. I can pretty much forget seeing New Posts again, I guess.
And what makes it worse (I think) is that the only people who care are you and the others it’s happening to.
Doing okay today, so we’ll see.
Argh. Got 500 errors two times in a row trying to do a search. Not happy it happened again after having to wait 2 minutes after the first time :mad:
When you use Tapatalk, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like The Admins, not depending on the New Posts function.
So it’s like Neo in The Matrix?
Kind of, without having to eat pills offered by strange bald men.
Oops! Too late.
Haven’t been zapped again since that last time, but there was another 20-minute 2 o’clock downage again of both the Board and the regular Straight Dope website. This happens pretty regularly – same time, same length. Wonder what that’s all about.
Zapped again.
And again. 7:30 MDT June 13.
Actually, visiting other forums has got me thinking I may have this problem too. I’ve always taken it as given that the last unread indicator here was unreliable, and all threads would be marked read as long as you visited the forums. I’ve been finding new posts by memory.
It’s been two weeks since I got zapped, but today there it is again with the mysterious 2 o’clock 20-minute outage of both the Board and the regular Straight Dope website. What is that for anyway?
And I spoke too soon. Zapped again, the first time in two weeks.
Again, I’m not going to pay to renew my membership later this year unless this gets fixed.
Not happening QUITE enough in my case to not pay my dues indefinitely (I’ve been getting e-mails about renewing, so I’ll probably be transmogrified into a Guest into the next few days), but I’ll delay a little while to see if Google gives SDMB another spanking and to see if the last visited glitch gets worse. I delayed my renewal once before when SDMB was seriously screwing up a year or two ago (must be getting senile; can’t remember whether that big problem was one or two years ago). Seems to me that is the most appropriate response to the situation.
ETA Oops - looks like the transmogrification has already occured. I see that I am now a Guest.
It used to be (back in the very old days) that around 2 AM Chicago time was when the boards were backed up. I’m not sure if that still happens, I’ll try to check and to get someone (Jerry) to look into this.
I figured it must be some sort of maintenance. 2am in Chicago, when not many people might be using it.
But what about this problem of resetting all the Unread stuff to Read. Is anyone working on that?
My understanding is that Jerry has not been able duplicate this, and has no clue. I’ll ask him to look into it again.
Thanks, C.K. This resetting of the “last visited” happens to me about once or twice a week and I probably log in here three or four times a day, so about once every 30 to 40 times. Most of the time when I first log in the time stamp shows my actual “last visited” time and my Subscribed Threads New Posts are ok; I go to one thread and when I return to the new posts I have none, and the “last visited” has reset to whatever time I just now logged in. Maddening! I’d love it if someone could figure it out.
That’s pretty close to the same frequency for me, and exactly those symptoms (OK when I first connect, look at New Posts, POOF! last visited reset).