It seems the forum is messed up

[Werne]

It seems something is wrong with the forums, especially My Content and Watched Topics. Anyway, to explain what's going on.

 

Old topics started popping up in My Content saying that there's a new reply to them but the last reply is from December 2011, even the ones in which I was the last poster. Watched topics show up saying there's a new reply but no one posted in them for over 6 months. And when I read them, they pop up again after a few hours. The same goes for when I'm browsing the forums, most topics I've read have absolutely no new posts but they still show up as if I haven't read them.

 

I mostly use the forums so it's a bit annoying to read through 2 pages of threads in my content to read the one that really does have new posts in it.

 

EDIT: I'd also like to add that this thread is not included in My Content, even though I started it.

Edited June 23, 2012 by Werne

[SariDecember]

Same here, glad to hear that I'm not the only one! ;)

 

I also scoured the site news and changelogs and couldn't find anything about that matter!? o_O

[HeyYou]

There was another thread on this topic the other day when I was here.... but, can't seem to come up with it now..... I have also started to see this problem in various forums. Showing topics as unread that I was the last poster in.... also topics that I have read, and posted in, showing as completely unread, such that when I click the button for "first unread post", it takes me to the first page of the thread....... Real curious what that's all about.

 

Cookies are enabled, I only surf the forums from this machine.....

[Deleted2547005User]

I had a power outage during a storm last week, which killed my computer in the most spectacular fashion. I thought that having to restore the harddrive had caused this issue since my cookies were deleted, but today I returned to the Forums only see that the problem persisted - everything had been reset when I logged out. Then I saw this thread, which as eased my mind, but leaves a greater question: What in the world has happened to the Nexus?

[Werne]

I also figured out that it takes 30 minutes for a thread I replied to, to appear in My Content. Or 16 hours when it comes to this particular one.

[buddah]

It might be related to this issue:

 

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/708498-forum-issues/

[Deleted2547005User]

It might be related to this issue:

 

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/708498-forum-issues/

 

Ahhh. Now it makes sense. By default, my Firefox deletes cookies when I close the browser. Fixing the issue now.

 

EDIT: No joy. It worked until I closed Firefox, and it was told to keep all cookies until they expire. Will do some more checks and report back if I can.

[Werne]

It might be related to this issue:

 

http://forums.nexusm...8-forum-issues/

Erm, sorry to spam the forum with this thread, I really didn't see that one.

 

Ahhh. Now it makes sense. By default, my Firefox deletes cookies when I close the browser. Fixing the issue now.

 

EDIT: No joy. It worked until I closed Firefox, and it was told to keep all cookies until they expire. Will do some more checks and report back if I can.

Cookies have nothing to do with that. I believe the site remembers which threads you've read. If I log in on another computer, I'll see the threads with no new replies as read (that's when the site isn't acting like it's acting now).

[HeyYou]

Dark0ne changed a setting on his end, and the site does indeed now use cookies on your local machine to track read/unread threads. Trouble is, it doesn't seem to work worth a damn.

[Werne]

it doesn't seem to work worth a damn.

True that. The threads I've read reset after a few hours saying that I haven't read them, it takes around 30 minutes for the site to realize I've posted in a thread in order to place it in My Content, it also takes a long time to show that someone posted in a thread when it's in My Content. It just doesn't work right.