Annoying Board Behaviour
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:43 amThis is my experience and may not necessarily be the same for others.
I use Firefox 3.5 as my primary browser. I have it set up so that it will "Show my windows and tabs from last time". If I have Firefox running I will have DSLRUsers in one window on the New Posts page. I have never liked the portal and very rarely use it. I much prefer the New Posts page and the majority of the time - at least until recently - it has worked very well. From time to time I just refresh the window to see new posts.
Recently the "Last visit" feature has been doing weird things. It used to stay pretty stable but now it appears to change at the drop of a hat. This means that if I didn't read all the threads that I wanted between refreshes threads will drop off the list as it will only show threads since my "Last visit". There was a time where "Last visit" got stuck. This was actually really good because I never lost any threads.
In my experience, things have been a lot worse since the board got rated as an "Attack Site". I don't know if this was because I cleared my private data (as was recommended), a change in Firefox 3.5 or it was just coincidental.
As I said above, every time I load Firefox it opens a DLSRUsers window (as well as other sites that I frequently visit). Previously, if I rebooted my PC and relaunched Firefox "Last visit" would not update and all the threads that were there before I rebooted would still be there. Now when I relaunch Firefox, "Last visit" is updated and I only get very recent threads. I don't know if this is a change in Firefox or a change in DSLRUsers or both. I had previously thought that Firefox reloaded from cache - I know it still does that on some other sites, or at least it appears that way. That no longer seems to be the case.
So... to the 2x2 thread. I have been pretty busy during the last week and probably only visited DSLRUsers 2 or 3 times. Over the week I've probably rebooted my PC 5 or 6 times. I suspect what has happened is that the timing of my reboots and the timing of my visits was such that the 2x2 thread (and others now that I look at General Discussion) slipped through.
I guess I'm going to have to change the way I visit the board. I really don't like the portal but I guess I'll have to live with it.
I use Firefox 3.5 as my primary browser. I have it set up so that it will "Show my windows and tabs from last time". If I have Firefox running I will have DSLRUsers in one window on the New Posts page. I have never liked the portal and very rarely use it. I much prefer the New Posts page and the majority of the time - at least until recently - it has worked very well. From time to time I just refresh the window to see new posts.
Recently the "Last visit" feature has been doing weird things. It used to stay pretty stable but now it appears to change at the drop of a hat. This means that if I didn't read all the threads that I wanted between refreshes threads will drop off the list as it will only show threads since my "Last visit". There was a time where "Last visit" got stuck. This was actually really good because I never lost any threads.
In my experience, things have been a lot worse since the board got rated as an "Attack Site". I don't know if this was because I cleared my private data (as was recommended), a change in Firefox 3.5 or it was just coincidental.
As I said above, every time I load Firefox it opens a DLSRUsers window (as well as other sites that I frequently visit). Previously, if I rebooted my PC and relaunched Firefox "Last visit" would not update and all the threads that were there before I rebooted would still be there. Now when I relaunch Firefox, "Last visit" is updated and I only get very recent threads. I don't know if this is a change in Firefox or a change in DSLRUsers or both. I had previously thought that Firefox reloaded from cache - I know it still does that on some other sites, or at least it appears that way. That no longer seems to be the case.
So... to the 2x2 thread. I have been pretty busy during the last week and probably only visited DSLRUsers 2 or 3 times. Over the week I've probably rebooted my PC 5 or 6 times. I suspect what has happened is that the timing of my reboots and the timing of my visits was such that the 2x2 thread (and others now that I look at General Discussion) slipped through.
I guess I'm going to have to change the way I visit the board. I really don't like the portal but I guess I'll have to live with it.
