loosing cookies on the board

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 12:21 pm

sometimes, and recently more often, topics are changed into 'read' even though i did not read them... maintenance on the forum, or my browser screwing up? am i the only one who notices this?

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:15 pm

this happens to me too...
I've figured it to be the following..

I refresh the site, and it shows me new unread posts... However, I do not read them... If an hour or so is passed without me refreshing or reading one of the posts (ie. activity on the page), the unread posts are now marked read..
I believe it has something to do with me getting logged out from the server, and when this happens, all posts are "read"...

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:22 pm

mmmm are you sure? i do log on / off a lot, i'll check it but i can't help but think it's something different...

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:25 pm

well.. it happens to me.. (all the time..

)
It might be something else with you...

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:40 pm

join the club...

people always say 'it's something else with me'

:roll:

(ah, a few posts more, and i've hit the 500 mark... if they were all just as usefull as this one

)

PB · Post by PB » Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:16 pm

> If an hour or so is passed without me refreshing or reading one of the
> posts (ie. activity on the page), the unread posts are now marked read

Yep, this has been happening since at least January 2003 (one year).
It used to happen to me at work -- I'd load the site, do some work,
come back, and the posts would be "read". I made a point of reading
all posts immediately to avoid this in future, and have been to this day.

LarsG · Post by **LarsG** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 1:20 pm

I think it's one of Fred's attempts to make us read the forum as if there was no tomorrow!!

I know I'm sitting there thinking, "I just have to read these last posts before I go!!" hehe