I’d like to know if anyone is even attempting to do anything about this, or looking into it at all.
I realize how low a priority the SDMB is for the people that pay for it, so is there any point to continuing these reports, or should we just get used to it?
I guess that answers that question.
Just got nailed again.
And again.
And another.
Still continuing to happen.
I think it’s clear that for whatever reason, no one is doing anything or is going to do anything about it.
I agree, but one can always hope.
Hadn’t happened to me for a few months. I took a few days off the Dope, and logged in today to catch up. Standard procedure for me is to go to the home page and open the four or five Fora that I read in tabs. About half of them showed my last visit at the 19th at 11pm. The other half showed today at 8:15, which is when I started the session.
How to explain? I read the Dope nearly every day. After I read it today, when I come back into it tomorrow, there are a bunch of threads marked as not read. Usually (often, anyway), I will have lots of threads marked as not read. I assume that these are threads started today or threads with new posts today.
Lately, however, I have been seeing a strange thing - that is, when I open a board, I only see 3 or 4 threads marked as not read. Granted that these may be the only new threads posted to that particular board, but there were lots of new posts. Shouldn’t the threads with new posts also show up as not read?
This is been happening, as I said, for just a few weeks. I am using (currently) FireFox 19.0.0 but it was the same using 18.x.x.
What controls how vBulletin determines that I have read a thread or not and is there anything I am doing that affects this?
Thanks,
Bob
Check your “last visited” time. It certainly will be just after you logged in. You’re being logged out and back in-cause unknown. More in this thread.
AND no one seems to care.
Merged duplicate threads.
And it’s not that the staff doesn’t care, it’s that we haven’t figured out what the problem is.
I have reported this. I will report it again.
I understand it’s not the fault of the mods and admins here. As I stated above, I realize that the people who own this place don’t make it a very high priority to keep it running smoothly. We’re not blaming you. I’m not, anyway.
I hesitate to mention this for fear of tempting fate, but it’s not happened to me for 10 days now. Maybe it’s settling down.
I almost posted this a few days ago, but I didn’t want to tempt fate either. Then it happened. Fate knows.
One more day and still it hasn’t happened again. It’s like a recovering alcoholic waiting to fall off the wagon.
It just happened to me again.
ETA: To make it doubly weird, GQ questions were all marked read. Then I went into CS, it took a long time to load, and when it did, the normal amount of threads were marked unread.
I hadn’t had it happen for a long time either and it did again on Saturday.