Hey, otis

for the couple of times i have read the news group and the posts that i have read are still saying they are unread. It has only started since Monday or so. just a fyi

John

You're using RSS Bandit on the rss feeds? I had this too, only with rss bandit. (I'm currently on saucereader, no problem since)

Though a title change can make an RSS reader confused. For example if I change the title of a thread with [SOLVED] or something, some RSS readers get confused and show all messages in that thread as new.

This has been happening to me aswell for the past two weeks or so. I'm not using an rss reader at all. Basically old posts seem to never get marked as read.

erichar11 wrote:

This has been happening to me aswell for the past two weeks or so. I'm not using an rss reader at all. Basically old posts seem to never get marked as read.

Old posts showing up where then? In the threadlist?

John wrote:

Hey, otis

for the couple of times i have read the news group and the posts that i have read are still saying they are unread. It has only started since Monday or so. just a fyi John

John, could you explain to me which newsgroup? We don't expose the forum on NNTP/usenet

Otis wrote:

John wrote:

Hey, otis

for the couple of times i have read the news group and the posts that i have read are still saying they are unread. It has only started since Monday or so. just a fyi John

John, could you explain to me which newsgroup? We don't expose the forum on NNTP/usenet

Otis,

I don't know what you mean by newsgroup. I just go to the llbgen site, click on go to forum and start reading. No, i don't use rss, never have. the little round buttons next to the topics/messages after a certain date don't go to read status.

John

John wrote:

Otis wrote:

John wrote:

Hey, otis

for the couple of times i have read the news group and the posts that i have read are still saying they are unread. It has only started since Monday or so. just a fyi John

John, could you explain to me which newsgroup? We don't expose the forum on NNTP/usenet

Otis, I don't know what you mean by newsgroup. I just go to the llbgen site, click on go to forum and start reading. No, i don't use rss, never have. the little round buttons next to the topics/messages after a certain date don't go to read status. John

Ok, I thought you meant something like usenet newsgroups .

When you access the forums, a new session is started (or an existing is continued). It will read a cookie when the last time you visited the forums. When the thread list (or forums list) is shown, the date read from the cookie is checked with the date in the thread/forum, if the date in the cookie is earlier, you haven't seen these new items and the image will be yellow, otherwise grey.

It can be you visited the forums from different computers, as the date you last visited the forums is stored locally in a cookie, not in the database.

See this thread:

http://www.llblgen.com/tinyforum/Messages.aspx?ThreadID=839

I had the same problem, found the right cookies to munch delete in order to make it function correctly again.

I've not found the cause, but it seemed to be related to an installation/upgrade of Mozilla, when I had it import IE's cookies. Seems it somehow changed them in both places, and not in a good way.

Found the problem I think, had 2 LastVisitDate cookies. Deleted the incorrect one and everything seems to be working.

swallace wrote:

but it seemed to be related to an installation/upgrade of Mozilla

Frans, as i have come to know you i am sure that you are storing our IP's, Os and type of browser that we are using, and i was wondering what the percentage of browsers on the forum is.

Is it mostly IE or firebird.

wayne wrote:

swallace wrote:

but it seemed to be related to an installation/upgrade of Mozilla

Frans, as i have come to know you i am sure that you are storing our IP's, Os and type of browser that we are using, and i was wondering what the percentage of browsers on the forum is.

Is it mostly IE or firebird.

I only log IP numbers, not browsertypes or OS-es So I can't tell you really. I'll check if there is some log tracked at the ISP, as this site is hosted as a shared-hosted site on a big win2k3 box

Otis wrote:

wayne wrote:

swallace wrote:

but it seemed to be related to an installation/upgrade of Mozilla

Frans, as i have come to know you i am sure that you are storing our IP's, Os and type of browser that we are using, and i was wondering what the percentage of browsers on the forum is.

Is it mostly IE or firebird.

I only log IP numbers, not browsertypes or OS-es So I can't tell you really. I'll check if there is some log tracked at the ISP, as this site is hosted as a shared-hosted site on a big win2k3 box

hmm, I knew you were tracking something

It will really be interesting to see weather FireFox (not firebird ) is kicking IE's ass.

wayne wrote:

Otis wrote:

wayne wrote:

swallace wrote:

but it seemed to be related to an installation/upgrade of Mozilla

Frans, as i have come to know you i am sure that you are storing our IP's, Os and type of browser that we are using, and i was wondering what the percentage of browsers on the forum is.

Is it mostly IE or firebird.

I only log IP numbers, not browsertypes or OS-es So I can't tell you really. I'll check if there is some log tracked at the ISP, as this site is hosted as a shared-hosted site on a big win2k3 box

hmm, I knew you were tracking something

It will really be interesting to see weather FireFox (not firebird ) is kicking IE's ass.

Otis,

Found It, there was 2 cookies for llbgen and when i deleted the old one everything looks good. I was using IE.

John

there was 2 cookies for llbgen and when i deleted the old one

This is getting to be quite a common issue. Just curious, did you do an update to the forums software (other than the favorites feature) recently? Perhaps change server, or domain information? Not sure what else could trigger such a thing.

I should have saved my bad cookies and forwarded them for inspection.

I have not changed any of the code which writes out the cookies. I updated the forum code last weekend, to include bookmark support, but that's about it. I've no idea what might have caused this cookie-mistery... But it wasn't code-cookin' from my side