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Bug Report: New post feature, in Firebird?

OrthancOrthanc Death Lite, Only 1 CalorieOff the end of the internet, just turn left.Registered User, ClubPA regular
edited October 2003 in H.Q. Reception Desk
The new posts highliting (Threads turn red etc) doesn't seem to be working for me anymore. They don't change back to the tan colour once I've read them.

I recently switched to Firebird but it was working a couple of couple of days ago. I just loaded up in IE and it seems fine.

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  • wossNamewossName Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2003
    I'm not currently seeing this problem, although I do know what you're talking about. I've seen this happen here and on other phpBB-based boards. It's either a bug in phpBB or a load-related issue. I very much doubt that it's caused by Firebird, since the highlighting is done server-side, AFAIK.

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  • ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited September 2003
    This is just the cluster being silly. The clocks are off sync by a little bit. So they dont exactly match up on things you just read, give it about 5 min, it will go away.

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  • wossNamewossName Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2003
    I've seen this behaviour on forums that are not clustered, any idea what that might be ?

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  • OrthancOrthanc Death Lite, Only 1 Calorie Off the end of the internet, just turn left.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2003
    It would seem strange that it is affected by the browser. But like I say, IE seems to be working fine.

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  • ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited September 2003
    wossName wrote:
    I've seen this behaviour on forums that are not clustered, any idea what that might be ?
    Refreshing the page doesnt help? Normally Firebird caches the content for a little while... Hmmmmmm. If its not a caching problem than I cant think of anything off the top of my head.

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  • SlungsolowSlungsolow Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2003
    This usually happens to me If I visit PA after being at another forum in another tab for a long time.. like TTB.. my guess is its a cookie problem.

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited October 2003
    yeah, if you are seeing the posts not staying current on the highliting then I would blame it on the cluster clocks not being in sync. If you are not seeing them at all, it may be that you have firebird set too restrictive, and it rejected the cookies.

    I believe there is some combination of server-side determination of what time you last viewed a thread, as well as cookie-based determination of what threads you have seen. I've never looked closely at that code because it has always worked for me...

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  • OrthancOrthanc Death Lite, Only 1 Calorie Off the end of the internet, just turn left.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2003
    Seems to be working fine again now. I'm guessing the clocks have been synced up again

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