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[Crackle]

More a puzzler than anything else as I can't figure it out.

I always stay logged in but occasionally when I reply to a post and then go back to Today's posts. There's my post at the top but displayed in Bold as if it contains posts I haven't read. Yet if I go back into it, it's all read and mine is the last.

Most times it's right and displays the post normally as one I've read with mine as the last contribution.

Eh!

 

[Shaun]

Happens to me too.

I think it's just a cookie thing; it just goes, well, you know, what's the technical term - squiffy - yes, that's it, squiffy.

 

[Crackle]

I can live with that as an explanation - Squiffy, it'll do for me. Tah.

 

[magnatom]

I find, that if you write a post, and while you are doing this, someone else posts in the thread, this happens. Once posting, you are taken to the thread, and you can see the other post by the other user. However, the system doesn't recognise that you have read the other post, and so when you come out of that thread, it thinks there are new posts.

I suppose it makes sure you don't miss any posts above you new one.

Does that make sense!

 

[Shaun]

I find, that if you write a post, and while you are doing this, someone else posts in the thread, this happens. Once posting, you are taken to the thread, and you can see the other post by the other user. However, the system doesn't recognise that you have read the other post, and so when you come out of that thread, it thinks there are new posts.

I suppose it makes sure you don't miss any posts above you new one.

Does that make sense!

So what you're saying here is that it's squiffy?

 

[mickle]

Ahem.. What's a cookie?

 

[col]

Ahem.. What's a cookie?

A sort of chef?

 

[Will1985]

A type of American biscuit which lives in your computer and tells the website you are viewing that you have visited before and there is no need for more biscuits...

 

[tdr1nka]

Will I need to empty my computer of biscuit crumbs every so often?
Might this not encourage mice.

 

[magnatom]

So what you're saying here is that it's squiffy?

No. This particular problem is a squoogit.

 

[Arch]

Will I need to empty my computer of biscuit crumbs every so often?
Might this not encourage mice.

You usually only have one mouse per computer...

 

[tdr1nka]

*sings*
'I saw a mouse!
Where?
There on the desk'.....?


BTW OP, is this a page refresh thing? Are you hitting the back button and getting the un-refreshed page?

 

[magnatom]

You usually only have one mouse per computer...

I've got a Finger Mouse on mine!

 

[Crackle]

Oy! Can you lot P!ss off from my serious question

 

[col]

Oy! Can you lot P!ss off from my serious question

Its a of sort little programme put into your pc so you dont have to keep signing into a website all the time, and helps speed up the page opening I think ?