As of last week the pips on the main board do not show as being "read".

Is anyone else having this problem?

I have to watch the date and times and then go to the bottom of the main board and click on "Mark all posts as read" after I'm caught up.

It's very annoying and not very user friendly! :(

Any ideas as to what the problem could be and how I could fix it?

Thanks!

Not sure Ess it's been working for me. Two thoughts on things to try:

First try forcing our browser to pull form the site not cache. On most browsers holding down the shift key while clicking refresh should do the trick.

Another thing to try is clicking the "Mark all posts as read" at the bottom of the main forum screen.

Let us know it this helps at all.....

Thanks, hb! I'll try the first and I've been doing the second, but it's not "user friendly".

Some browsers have a setting related to how often to pull from a site. I remember once having a person at work accidentally change this setting and they could get to certain info and they couldn't figure out why...

If you tell us which browser you are using, perhaps someone can tell you where the setting is located. (I use Opera) so you can check it...

Yup, I had the same problem.

What is wrong? :huh:

We need an admin to come to chat right now! Ess has a problem!

Thanks, kd! Disregard the above from kd.

I did what hb said - held shift and clicked refresh and I was a guest all of a sudden and couldn't find my password and firefox wouldn't show it to me, although it showed me the rest. The email I used is probably gone now, etc.

I finally found my password and here I am.

:P

Now - let's see if I still have the same prob with the main board pips!

Oh, Daemon - disregard the pm from kd, ty.


Thanks for all your help, kd!! ^_^

Oh don't worry. I disregard all PMs.

:o

:lol:

*whacks Daemon with a large trout*

:P


Any ideas to actually *help* Daemon??? :D

Sorry Ess - I'm suprised that would have removed your cookies (which is where your password is stored). In IE and Opera holding down shift simply tells the browers to not use cache but get all it's info from the site. Shouldn't have anything to do with cookies.

Send pop-ups announcing his PM's on a once-every-5-minute basis until he answers them. :P

Yeah, sounds like you pouched your cookies when you cleared your cache.

Holding down shift and clicking refresh shouldn't clear cache it should just not use cache for that refresh... Seemed like the safest suggestion...

The pips have always functioned in unpredicatble ways for me. On the Mac in Safari, on the PC in Explorer. Sometimes the pips work, sometimes they stay locked on, sometimes the pips all disapear after I've read the first post. It's a game for me now.

*shrug* bug maybe? Something corrupted the cookie (walnut shortbread)?


Clearing the cache is pretty safe too, I do it pretty much every evening.

Yeah, I'm the same. I generally ignore them.

Ess I don't know where the setting is in foxfire but in IE (in case it's similiar):

Click Tools from the menu bar

Select "Internet Options"

in the "temporary internet files" section click "settings"

Make sure that "newer versions of stored pages" is set to "automatically".


hopefully foxfire has a similar setting...

No worries, hb! :)


:lol: @ kd! :P

I'm not aware of it if it does exist. Firefox is sort of stripped down. The only cache settings that you can play with it the cache size, and that's not the issue of contension.

:eyebrow:

Go Opera:

http://www.opera.com/download/

There are actually a lot of settings behind firefox, but they're not readily accessible and you don't normally need to mess with them.

I just checked out the site with Opera, Firefox and I.E. Explorer showed the pips problem, neither of the others did. It seems unlikely to be cache related, since IE was the last one I tried.

I also hit another minor problem - the lightning flash links in embassy row (not checked elsewhere) appear to redirect you up one level, rather than down into the relevant subforum.

*sighs*

Can't find temp. internet files...


:(


*edit*


Just read the above posts. Apparently FF doesn't have such an area?


I had Opera, but got rid of it... :P

I might have found a solution for Firefox, but it's risky. Ess, do you like risk... do you like living on the wildside?

Just as an experiment, try opening a new tab and putting in

http://209.85.62.23/66/151/upload/p1791998.gif

You should get a small icon with a white chevron on a gold field.

:ph43r: :unsure:

What is it, Daemon?


I saw the white chevron on gold, Al!

Type into your URL bar:

Then in the filter field, copy and paste:

Then right click and select "Modify". Change the number from 3 to 1

Tell me how that works.

EDIT: Dyslexia corrected.

New window or this one?

That checks- mine is set to 3 also.

Ha! 3 to 1, I mean!

Ess, any window.

A new tab is probably easiest, we may need to check a few of these settings.

"Modify" is greyed out.

Do I click show all?


Right-click what?

:P

All I could click would be New - string, integer, boolean...

Er? You are right clicking the line that says "browser. cache. check_doc_frequency"?

Yo, just type "cache" into the filter, and find the entry just by looking through.

yup...

*edit*

Ok, I'll try that...

Ok, was 3 is now 1.

Close window?

I would imagine that you would have to close all windows and restart the 'Fox, but that's just me.

Nah, just refresh the tab/window with the forum in it.

If no difference, then try Daemon's way.

Refresh didn't do it - I still see the lightning bolt.

I'm going to close FF and come back...