The icons next to the threads stopped indicating if there are any new posts. Any ideas? I tried cleaning out my cookies and temp internet files, but that didnt seem to help.

8/2/2011 10:54:52 AM

It's the same for me. I get 'new' posts if I remain on the site for awhile and refresh. I assume it has to do with the cookie or the auto-login stuff.

8/2/2011 12:25:45 PM

you know i've noticed this every now and then too, but i've always kinda shrugged off the new/old as pretty unreliable to begin with. or at least, i never really could tell as a user exactly how it was working, so i guess i got in the habit of ignoring it most of the time. but since you made the thread and I got a PM about this exact issue the other day, I took a closer look at that part of the original code today

this is the way new/old works - say I log in today at 9 am. at 10 am I log out. at 11 am I log in again. Any thread that has had activity since 9 am is considered new. what's happening is that for some people, when they log in it creates 2 sessions instead of 1. so if I log in at 11 am, it marks every thread as old because it thinks the last time I logged in was also 11 am.

I haven't figured out why some people are getting logged in twice yet though. If I figure that out I'll let y'all know

8/2/2011 12:50:03 PM

you also have to click logout for it to ever work. i dont. so... everything is almost always marked new.

8/2/2011 2:01:27 PM

This has always been the Great T-Dub Mystery for me.

8/2/2011 2:56:22 PM

This is actually just a recent problem for me. I don't know if the last maintenance had anything to do with it, but it seems like more than a coincidence.

8/2/2011 4:03:13 PM

I too thought what was new was a random threshold

8/2/2011 4:20:58 PM

^^ you are correct actually. when i looked at the logs earlier, i could see that it had been occurring regularly for at least the last year. but now i see that starting last monday (the day after the server maintenance) it started occurring 15x more often.

so....i will keep looking into it

8/2/2011 4:38:26 PM

Cool, thanks. This is definitely something that just started for me recently, it has been very reliable for me in the past.

8/3/2011 9:18:11 AM

why arent my sounds playing j/k

[Edited on August 4, 2011 at 11:38 AM. Reason : s]

8/4/2011 11:38:34 AM

signed...just happened to me

8/8/2011 8:38:29 PM

CrazyJ strikes again

8/9/2011 7:52:03 PM

happened again when I logged in tonight...

apparently, tdub doesn't like me switching IP addresses
both times it happened the first time I logged in from home after being at work

8/9/2011 10:00:14 PM

+1

8/9/2011 10:45:16 PM

Paging qntm....

Did you do something to fix this? Seems to have gone away the past couple of days.

9/9/2011 9:27:02 AM

Its back to doing it...

9/12/2011 10:21:10 AM

if it's user-based on stored on the server, then why is it different for each machine I log in with? i.e., on my phone, almost all are new since I don't log on often. but on my laptops it's a little more accurate.

9/12/2011 12:10:04 PM