Has anyone else been having issues with cookies resetting? I swear I haven’t been to the board all day, but when I fired it up a little while ago my last read posts were all from 4pm on.
The only thing I can think of - if it is on my end - is that I do surf Twitter on my phone during the day. Occasionally I’ll follow a link and open a browser. Might that reset cookies? I suppose it’s possible I have the Dope up in a background tab I don’t know about.
TL;DR - Jack confused.
Some mobile browsers go off and do stuff in the background so that things load more quickly. If you go to a site like the SDMB often, it may load it in the background to try to speed things up.
Otherwise, there is an issue with the board where it occasionally does stuff like this. I don’t have access to admin level stuff, but when an admin looked at the problem (quite a while ago), I believe that they found that the issue isn’t something that can be fixed in the version of vBulletin that we use.
It picks on some users more than others. Since this is the first time you’ve noticed it, you must be one of the lucky ones that it rarely picks on. Some folks experience this much more frequently. The problem seems to get worse when the board is more heavily loaded, and we get more complaints about it when we have complaints of other loading-related issues like slow page loading.