"View New Posts" not working right..

[yellow]

Rob,

Starting last night (I think), the "View New Posts" stop working the way it has in the past. Say I look at the new posts and read a couple, in the list of new posts/threads, the icon goes from 'unread' envelope to the closed 'read' envelope. If I then go to The macosxhints Forums link, then click on View New Posts, it takes me to the list and all the posts that I've read are still marked as unread. If I refresh the page then, the icons/threads show up properly as being read. Is this a known problem?

Is anyone else seeing this?

I've not changed anything or installed anything on either Mac/Safari I use constantly. Cleared my Safari cache etc as well..

Cheers! Yellow

EDIT: This goes for editing my posts as well. As I edit this one, I am taken back to the original post and my edits don't show unless I refresh.

[griffman]

We haven't changed any settings on the forum site, and it seems to be working fine for me -- I view the list of new posts, click on a couple, then go back to the main page and click on View New Posts, and the couple I read are marked with closed envelopes.

I'd suggest deleting your browser's cache as a starting point? Not sure what's going on, but I think things are working normally as far as I can tell...

-rob.

[yellow]

Already did that. Seems strange that it's happening on two different machines (in different locations) suddenly. I'll check further into it on my end.

[Craig R. Arko]

I'm seeing a number of anomalies the past 24 hours or so, including both sites being unreachable, times messed up and threads (like this one) being displayed inconsistently.

I think there are some server or database gremlins afoot, Rob.

[griffman]

We were down for most of the (early) morning today ... maybe a bit of time will help sort out the gremlins while indexes are updated, etc. I'll run a repair tables command on the database, though they aren't reporting any issues right now...

-rob.

[rusto]

I'd PM'd Griffman about this earlier and it seemed to sort itself out...but now the issue has returned. Deleting cookies did not solve the problem either.

[yellow]

No idea if this will help solve a thing, but for my own piece of mind, it does help reduce the variables.
More info: I am having this problem on 10.3.2, with Safari 1.11 (v100.1). I do not have this problem at all with IE 5.23 or Netscape 7.1. I tried another user on my work machine. Safari has the same problem consistently in that user, and IE & Netslow don't have the problem. I tried Safari 1.01 (v85.6) in Jaguar on another machine and still had the same troubles. Weird.

I should also note that the other users and Macs that I've tested this on have never logged into the forums, so it appears the only consistencies are my user and safari.

[yellow]

Save me Superman! Check this thread:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=103708#post103708

My reply ended up BEFORE the original post!!

Edit: and this post was posted after Rusto's post about it working/not working. Naughty databse.

[rusto]

Is working good now (with no changes on my part).

EDIT: Ooops, suddenly it's not, again.

[griffman]

Hmm, weirdness prevails ... we're looking into it...

-rob.

[griffman]

Mystery explained -- the clock on the server got screwed up after our downtime today; sometime after we went back online (and people started posting), the clock was set to the correct time. Hence the odd forum order on that one page :).

All really should be better now...

-rob.

[yellow]

Looks better to me! Thanks a ton Rob!!
I was going into withdrawal.. [shuder]