Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Every so often the ubb decides that I don't browse the forum all that often and resets every post to unread. It is vaguely irritating. Marked in the above images are the areas in which the error occurs. Out of curiosity why does this happen, and if it is because UBB is a needy whore can someone toss it a bone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Is that Chrome you're using? I'd be happy to blame that for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Safari does it too sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk adc. Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 So does Opera, I just did several random (which I would say, futile) fixes and it returned to normal -------- -Nightwatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Originally Posted By: Cairo Jim Is that Chrome you're using? I'd be happy to blame that for you Firefox (nightly build). It shouldn't matter unless UBB does some server-side tweaking for certain user agents, since this is obviously a server-side issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 That's... weird. I've never seen that happen. (And I use Chrome. ) The read flag is definitely stored server-side. The only thing I can think of is that there's some kind of set-all-flags-to-unread request that it is possible to send the server unintentionally. Folks who have had this happen: can you think of ANYTHING, however minor, that sometimes precedes it, but never precedes times that your read flags are preserved? For example, not having been automatically logged in after months of that being the case, clearing your cache, updating the version of your browser, not having logged in to SW in a long time, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 I was reading General (from that board, just clicking name of topic with unread posts), I hit the SW logo to get back to the board index, then swore because it had done this again. No cache-clears, no cookie removing, none of that. I can't remember the last time I had to log in to SW. Although I use the nightly-build, It hadn't had a chance to update yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 it's happened to me a couple of times and i have no idea why i think maybe it could be because i murdered someone in a past life. that would make sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 It happened in the middle of a session? Weird. I do not regularly visit the board index page -- I do almost all of my browsing via the active topics list. Maybe that would explain why it has never happened to me. It could be a board index page bug. That is very believable for UBB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I always use the board index page (and never the active topics list) when posting here, and I've never had this problem, for what it's worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I have the opposite problem. Every so often, UBB will decide that I have already read everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Originally Posted By: Tyranicus I have the opposite problem. Every so often UBB will decide that I have already read everything. Sometimes I wish UBB had a "like" button. Then I realize that would be terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt BMA Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 It would be too facebooky. But there's always the topic rating. Why terrible though ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Karma, upvotes & downvotes, likes and dislikes... they're a slippery slope. Certainly, they help to sort through an internet full of screaming voices, but when you start to rank ideas, you lose something. It's not a community anymore; it's a jury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Well... I am just glad this doesn't happen to me You said you are using firefox? Wierd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Lauren CW Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 IN all manner of my use of the boards, over 8 years, this has never once happened to me, on Firefox, IE, Chrome, Mozilla etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Mod. Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Never for me. Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 This has never happened to me, although I have had everything get marked as "read." I use Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Just chiming in to say I use Firefox and I've never had this mysterious problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Happened to me several times (always use FF) both towards all read and unread. I think it has something to do with the fact that I have my settings on clear cookies on exit. Sometimes when I leave and comeback it corrects itself, then again it could just be that because I only enter the forums that interest me I don't notice that the rest of the threads remain unread. Amd in case you haven't noticed at the bottom of all pages there's a button that marks all posts across the board (all forums and subforums) as read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Originally Posted By: Tyranicus I have the opposite problem. Every so often, UBB will decide that I have already read everything. This makes more sense, as there is actually a button at the bottom of the page to mark all topics as read. That said, I've never had either one happen to me, and I use Firefox and never clear caches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 You know how some browsers can be set to "pre-load" sites you are on, following all kinds of links and loading content invisibly so that there's no delay when you click on one? Could that be relevant for the people who've had everything marked as read? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Actaeon Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 I just had this happen to me yesterday in Chrome, but it's possible I started to load it and changed my mind, thus resetting the cookie or whatever governs this stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S You know how some browsers can be set to "pre-load" sites you are on, following all kinds of links and loading content invisibly so that there's no delay when you click on one? Could that be relevant for the people who've had everything marked as read? My browser does not do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 I clear caches and everything quite often and never had a problem like this happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Lauren CW Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Holy crap. It happened to me. It listed the Miscellaneous: Northern Isles stuff as all unread, but everything else is listed as read for me now, despite there being at least like 4 posts in the image thread that I had not seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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