"Show unread posts since last visit."

[Griffin NoName]

"Show unread posts since last visit." has failed me again.

Nothing in list.

Had to go right through the main board looking for posts marked Today". (New)

I don't know why I get this error, it's sporadic and I cannot spot any obvious circumstances. It is VERY annoying. I am going to look in SMF forums to see if it's a known problem.

Does anyone else get this problem at all, ever?

EDIT
1. There is a report of this problem on SMF boards, but the SMF team cannot recreate the problem. Not surprised as it happens out of the blue and very sporadically.
2. The problem, last time I had it, went away after about three days. I just hope it goes away again now.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

It happens to me with relative frequency, not always completely empty but new posts don't show, and once those are read is empty despite new posts. Nothing terrible if you ask me, just a small annoyance.

I suspect it has something to do with cookies or something of the sort, no unread posts are marked as read so whatever keeps track in the DB is not affected, only the Unread Posts page.

[Swatopluk]

Regularly there are only parts of the new posts displayed, i.e. some are missing.

[Sibling DavidH]

Yes, it happens to me, too. Annoying, but since the main index marks today in bold, it's not hard to spot the new stuff.

What I find much more annoying is the delays due to Cloudflare.

[Griffin NoName]

Perhaps I have an unhealthy over-dependence on the unread posts since last visit !!

The list is back tonight, much to my relief.

.......................the main index marks today in bold, it's not hard to spot the new stuff.

What I find much more annoying is the delays due to Cloudflare.

TODAY not much good if login just after midnight

Yes, cloudfare can be annoying. But it usually quickly rectifies itself. I can no longer remember what it is supposed to solve. Bad memory!

[anthrobabe]

 
usually I get 3 to 5 pages since I am so AWOL all the time

I have to do some speed reading to catch up--- but I have not noticed any lack in content

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

maybe it's a wrapped vs unwrapped issue?

I always go unwrapped... I like my monastery .... bare.

[Griffin NoName]

I tried wrapped and unwrapped - so no I don't think it's that. (Like you, I go unwrapped normally. )

I think it's some obscure bug, as I said, SMF people cannot reproduce it and it is sporadic so very hard to trace I would think.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Weird, then. 

This may sound odd, but have you ran a memory test on your PC?  If your machine is more than say 3 or 4 years old, some if it's memory chips may have started to go wonky.  A simple memory test utility will spot those right off-- google-- or an even simpler trick, is to reboot into your BIOS, and disable the "quick boot" feature, allowing BIOS to perform a more exhaustive test-- which can spot a memory frame that's gone bad all the time.

A spotty memory cell, though, requires a utility to run for a couple'a hours.   

My point here, is maybe something in your PC is messing with your cookies-- where you're caching the interweb stuff.

Hmmm.... as I write this?  It's unlikely to be a memory thing-- but theres' a slight chance it's a disk thing, if you're only using FAT32 or sumsuch, instead of a double-chain file system (such as M$ NTFS or the Linnux equivalent or even Apple's thing... surely Apple has a file system better than the single-link FAT derivative.)

If you're using XP or 7?  And let it do it's normal thing?  Odds are, you're on NTFS, which kinda nixes this one...

... still just thinking out-loud, here.

Okay.  There >>is<< one more thing you can try, one that's kinda easy too.

If you've not messed with the default stuff that sets cache locations for interweb programs?  They will be stored under your log-on profile--I'm talking the Windoze log-on profile here, not the Toadfishy one.  Anywho, interweb caches are stored deep within the profile's file system, in a default install of your browser.

To get a freshy, brand-spankin' new cache?  All you needs do, is create a new profile in Windoze-- make it an ADMIN one, of course.  Passwordy optional.  Reboot into the new profile-- rebooting is critical here, we want to flush the RAM memory too, fast user profile switching won't do that.

Now, go out to the toadfishy site and log-in as you would normally-- it should "think" you've not been there in ages, as there will be no cookies (yet) for that site-- brand-new set of cache files.

Obviously, you may wish to store in a file somewhere, the particulars-- the toadfish website, your user-name & password.  I suggest a TXT file (notepad) and store it on C:\toadfish.txt.  That way, any profile can see it... if you put it on your current desktop, it'll be hidden from all other profiles... even though you're the ADMIN.... (stupid windoze)  there's ways around that, but they are.... picky-picky. 

Good luck!

[Griffin NoName]

Sounds like a lot of effort! Since the problem has gone away, and happens only rarely, I think I'll just put up with it.