View Full Version : Read or unread - The Gremlins!
lacroupade
09-03-2009, 22:02
Paul; I've occasionally noticed that a bunch of unread threads spontaneously become 'read' before I've got to them - similarly, and it happened at 830pm tongiht, a bunch I've already read - including some that have me as the last updater - become 'unread' again...strange....
Paul
Deleted Member S
09-03-2009, 22:12
Yeah that has happened to me a few time:augie:augie:augie
zippy656
09-03-2009, 22:48
Yeah that has happened to me a few time:augie:augie:augie
and me, thought i was doing some thing ODD
Paul; I've occasionally noticed that a bunch of unread threads spontaneously become 'read' before I've got to them - similarly, and it happened at 830pm tongiht, a bunch I've already read - including some that have me as the last updater - become 'unread' again...strange....
Paul
Once you click the New Posts button you have 900 seconds (15 minutes) to read them before they become read.
The reason being, each time you visit the site here you activate the 900 second cookie which starts ticking.
Are you sure a read one suddenly becomes unread? the only explanation I can come up with is your ISP maybe caching previously viewed pages, unless you are ported via an AOL proxy squid I would have thought this unlikely :nenau
zippy656
09-03-2009, 23:31
Once you click the New Posts button you have 900 seconds (15 minutes) to read them before they become read.
The reason being, each time you visit the site here you activate the 900 second cookie which starts ticking.
Are you sure a read one suddenly becomes unread? the only explanation I can come up with is your ISP maybe caching previously viewed pages, unless you are ported via an AOL proxy squid I would have thought this unlikely :nenau
can you make it longer? the time i mean :augie
lacroupade
09-03-2009, 23:35
Definitely posts became unread again that I'd just looked at - three of them had my update as the last one so should have been 'read'...I had to go into each one again (about eight of them) to get them to show up as 'read' again in the Todays Posts menu item...
I use BTInternet, so assume the AOL proxy a non-starter?
I'd agree with Zips request about the time-out, should be a bit longer
can you make it longer? the time i mean :augie
I can, but that can cause other problems.
Let's give it a go... I have extended it to 1200 seconds (20 minutes) :thumb2
zippy656
10-03-2009, 07:04
thats great,
lacroupade
10-03-2009, 08:23
Bat - if I read some of my unread posts then log off, does the clock start again when I log back in, and are the other unread items preserved as it were?
extreme-4x4
10-03-2009, 11:01
firefox. works if you open another tab..... you dont miss a thing
lacroupade
10-03-2009, 11:05
firefox. works if you open another tab..... you dont miss a thing
You mean another tab for the one topic? i.e. the old right click and 'open in new tab' routine? But according to Bat, even if you leave the original Todays Posts topic list open, it times out after 15 mins (or 20 now of course).....better get yer stop watch out Colin..
extreme-4x4
10-03-2009, 11:10
you loose it if you refresh....
Bat - if I read some of my unread posts then log off, does the clock start again when I log back in, and are the other unread items preserved as it were?
If you click the log out button then the system thinks you have left the building. When you next log back on and click the New Posts button, it will show you all new posts since you last logged off (I.E. when you clicked the log out button).
You mean another tab for the one topic? i.e. the old right click and 'open in new tab' routine? But according to Bat, even if you leave the original Todays Posts topic list open, it times out after 15 mins (or 20 now of course).....better get yer stop watch out Colin..
If you have one tab open showing the new posts, then just open a new tab for each post you want to view... leaving the tab with the new posts unchanged, hope this makes sense :)
lacroupade
10-03-2009, 12:46
Bat does simply closing the F/fox tab/window leave me logged in, and if so for how long? That might be part of the issue...
zippy656
10-03-2009, 12:53
easy thing to do is read it all quicker..
Bat does simply closing the F/fox tab/window leave me logged in, and if so for how long? That might be part of the issue...
Yes, unless you log out the system will assume you are still here for a further 20 minutes (used to be 15 minutes) after your last click.
lacroupade
10-03-2009, 15:11
Yes, unless you log out the system will assume you are still here for a further 20 minutes (used to be 15 minutes) after your last click.
Ah that explains it - cos I do it the lazy way and have myself 'remembered', so when I click on the club link in favourites it takes me straight in without having to mess about with p/words...and when I leave I just click the 'x' (remember when that used to drive support guys mad cos you didn't use File-Exit and the application didn't always shut down properly?! Thats why I do it still LOL!).
Lesson learned - thanks! :doh
Next you'll be telling me you don't type exit when closing a DOS window ;):D
zippy656
10-03-2009, 16:25
Next you'll be telling me you don't type exit when closing a DOS window ;):D
whats DOS?? :nenau:nenau:nenau
:lol:clap:lol
whats DOS?? :nenau:nenau:nenau
Judging by your post count Zipp, I would say it's something you do all day :lol:lol;)
zippy656
10-03-2009, 17:12
lol,
good come back!
i didnt see that one coming
lacroupade
10-03-2009, 17:15
Judging by your post count Zipp, I would say it's something you do all day :lol:lol;)
Killer Classic - I fell off my chair larfing... :lol:lol:lol:lol
zippy656
10-03-2009, 17:16
carefully I could go all QUIET.. then you'd start to worry about me
lacroupade
10-03-2009, 17:17
Next you'll be telling me you don't type exit when closing a DOS window ;):D
you've clearly been playing with your Commodore 64 again...but AmigaDOS rules! :)
zippy656
10-03-2009, 17:20
my dragon 32 and 64 had msdos too!
extreme-4x4
10-03-2009, 17:31
Judging by your post count Zipp, I would say it's something you do all day :lol:lol;)
see thats what i like about this club....... bat dont say much , but when he does its well worth the wait
lmfao
lacroupade
10-03-2009, 17:31
my dragon 32 and 64 had msdos too! and I bet you type on it too...
lacroupade
10-03-2009, 17:32
my dragon 32 and 64 had msdos too!
BTW, anyone know who mrdos was?
extreme-4x4
10-03-2009, 17:36
zippy.......... according to bat21 , me and zippy's boss
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