I don’t think my clicking behavior has changed.
Twice in the last couple days, clicking “new posts” has resulted in the disclaimer that there ain’t none but that I can view threads posted to within the last 24 hours instead; and when I do, there are plenty of threads that have damn well been added to since I was last logged on.
I’m also getting “you can’t perform another search so quickly after the previous one, you have to wait” (that’s not how it’s worded but that’s the gist of it). Didn’t click “New Posts” twice, didn’t perform some other search prior.
So far I have been unable to duplicate this issue.
Anyone else seeing this? Please let me know.
Thanks.
Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
That is a known issue. We have had quite a few threads about it in the past. Siam Sam always referred to it as “zapping”. It breaks the “New Posts” feature and it breaks going to the first unread post in a thread feature as well.
When Jerry was our tech guy he managed to track down what was causing it and said that it was something that we couldn’t fix. He didn’t give any more details than that, at least not that I recall, but that makes me think that it’s a bug in our version of vBulletin and we’re just stuck with it.
It picks on some people more than others, and we don’t really have a clear understanding of why. Some people rarely experience it. Others have at times experienced it almost daily. It seems to be related to network and server errors as occurrences of it increase dramatically with the load on the servers and often coincide with numerous users reporting timeouts when loading pages. The frequency of this issue and its correlation to server load was one of the main reasons we were reluctant to lower the search timer for so many years.
That’s what we know about it. Unfortunately, I can’t give you a fix for it. The issue seems to be mostly on the server side here, but network errors seem to be a contributing factor, so if you have an internet connection that occasionally drops packets, that could potentially contribute to occurrences of this “zapping”.