In addition to what runner pat has pointed out, any suggestions you offer need to take into account that it is an intermittent problem. It doesn’t happen consistently (at least not for me, and I think the other victims would agree), but has been happening much more frequently recently.
It’s happened to me probably three times this week. Log in, check one forum, go to the next and everything is marked as not new. Just a matter of 5 minutes or less. It used to happen maybe once a month.
When it happens to me, it’s usually while I’m not even logged in. For example, I’ll sign out, then come back a day or two later, and all posts that have been made in subscribed threads since then are all already marked as read. And no, no one is logging in for me, as the time shown for last log-in matches mine.
It was happening to me every day for a while. Then I posted in here about it. Hasn’t happened since. Huh. I love magic.
Just now…logged in at 9:30. It shows my last time on as…9:30. (Actual last time on: yesterday at 10:20pm) So everything has already been read.
I did have enough time to open a few windows. I have four forums open to their main page and they show the unread threads. But as soon as I jump to one of the threads, I’m at the end because it’s all been read.
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And it just happened again. Logged off early yesterday afternoon, logged on just now maybe 20 hours later, and every post made since then in every Subscribed thread is marked as Read. Very annoying.
And again for me.
Can we just upgrade the whole read/unread thing to a newer version of vBulletin? This is seriously the only forum on the internet that can’t get this right. Every other forum - I can look at the site from my PC, then a tablet, then a different brower on my PC, and they’ll all track what I’ve actually read and correctly place me up to my last read post, but this forum is just random. Sometimes it resets for no reason, sometimes it puts in a random part of the thread that isn’t even close to where I last left off, and it all resets every time you access it with another browser/device.
The whole feature is substantially broken, which always confuses me since every other forum out there, including other vbulletin forums, gets it right.
I am a new user, so perhaps I’m just not going through the mechanics correctly, but I’m chiming in to say that I’m having essentially the same problem w/this board via tapatalk. I don’t read any other sites through that app yet, so I couldn’t tell you if it’s the board or the app.
Oh, that’s a good question – is it only happening to people reading on Tapatalk?
I don’t even know what Tapatalk is, but I have an inkling it has something to do with smartphones. But no, I’m on a home PC. Is okay today though.
Nope, standard desktop computer here. Hasn’t happened to me in a couple of days, though.
Nope. I’m not even quite sure what in ---- Tapatalk is.
I haven’t been able to see a pattern as to when it happens, other than I think I agree with everyone else that IF it happens, it happens fairly soon after you connect (I was [and am] a little uncertain because if I stay on one page I may not notice it until I refresh or go to another page).
I went through my subscribed posts, and clicked on New Posts (without walking away from the computer or going to another tab or anything like that) and in the time it took for the page to load, the timer reset. I don’t think it’s been quite that bad for me before.
I thought it was cured but just now happened again.
I’m on a Windows XP laptop, running Chrome, and as mentioned above, it happens to me.
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While it hasn’t happened in a few days for me, I’m using W7.
I’m about overdue for this annoyance to happen again. I use Windows 7 and Mac and it occurs on both.
Happened again: in the twentieth of a second it took to get new posts, the timer reset. But it managed to retrieve the threads posted to in the 12 hours since I was here last (with the message “The threads below have not been updated since your last visit but still contain unread posts.”)
Just for the record (I’ve already reported my occurences of this glitch in previous messages) I am running Firefox 18, mostly on Ubuntu Linux. I sometimes use Firefox on Windows 7 and it’s happened on both systems.