This has been bugging me since the new software went up. I was hoping it was a fluke or it was something that could be solved by logging out and clearing my cache, but it hasn't cleared up.

When I log into the BBS and read messages, it often doesn't mark the messages as "read" and continues to show me the little orange "(1)" in the parent views and also shows the message as unread (highlighted bar) when I go back in and read it a second time.

This happens pretty much every day, there are at least two or three messages that I have to go in and read 2-3 times before the BBS is convinced that I've actually read them.

This seems to happen equally whether I'm on broadband or dialup.

Potentially related additional problem:

When I am reading the BBS from a dial up connection, if I choose to open multiple windows (say, a window for Off Topic, a window for General, a window for Technical, an additional sub-windows for individual posts within those forums), and each of those is downloading simultaneously, they will frequently *all* stall out with only about half of the data stream loaded. I have to hit "stop" and "refresh" on each one in order for it to get all of the thread.

This does not happen on broadband. It also did not happen on either broadband or dialup when the old BBS software was installed.

there is a thread devoted to BBS bugs, already

Yes, and I think it's time that thread was un-pinned and retired. The biggest group of initial bugs have been ironed out or deferred, so that thread has served its purpose. (Besides, it's one of the threads that takes a long time on my modem and always times out when I try to load it.) So I think we should go back to individual bug reports as we find them.

Personally, I think the new BBS is a train wreck. I have the same problem you mentioned, I still can't log in with multiple computers consistantly, and every now and then it marks all posts as read for no good reason. I am coming here a lot less often because of it.

I'll just add that I haven't had any of these problems whatsoever, and I've logged onto many machines successfully, including my P800.

Isn't this something that was happening to many people on the old system as well? I thought it was happening to you, too. Are you sure the problem isn't on your end?

Same here.... no problems whatsoever on several PCs. I don't believe its the board at fault.

Agreed. No problems with posts or logging on or halfway-downloaded datastreams.

For me, the old board was much more forgiving if I did not explicitly log out and back in again each time I moved to a new PC. With the new board, I find that I must log out and back in every time I access it from a different location. I also regularly run into the can't-logout-so-must-remove-cookies bug, mentioned on the omnibus bug thread. No big deal.

--Dan.

Instead of clearing the cookies manually you can just go to the logout page. Just go to http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads/logout.php and you'll be able to login again.

The bug I mentioned (and referenced in the other thread) is that the logout button doesn't always work.

--Dan.

Oh, never seen that one. I sometimes run into a situation where the board thinks I'm logged in, but I'm not, and there is no "Logout" link. I just go to the logout page manually and login and everything is fine again.

Another note about the unread-mark behavior...

Sometimes I will view the main page (the "top index") and it shows exactly 1 unread post within a specific thread, including the name of that thread. So I click directly on that thread name and it brings me to the single unread post within that thread. As expected.

But when I'm done reading that post, and I click the link to go up one level to that forum's index, I see that there's a thread about 12 items down in the list with five new/unread posts in it.

I click on that thread and I see that it's the five posts I already read 15 minutes ago.

My point is that there is often a discrepancy between the unread count shown on the main index page, and the unread count for a thread within the forum. And in the case cited above, the main index page was correct, it was the forum view that was showing (incorrectly) that I hadn't read those five posts in that thread.

Same here. No problems.

When a similar problem happened on the old board, it seemed to cycle around amongst users. For months I would not have the problem, then it would plague me for a week or two, then it would seem to go away again and another user would complain about it.

*knocking on desk*

I've been here a while, and never once had this problem. I did a quick guestimate in my head, and I think I've checked this board regularly on about 40 different computers, most likely more.

Could a reason for this be that I don't think I've ever logged out of the system?

The only problem I've noticed like this is with my Konqurer browser on a very old Mandrake Linux machine at home. But that install is about to go away so it really isn't an issue. My IE browsers work fine and I never log out.

This is how I visit as well.

I should also point out that I used IE up until a month or two ago, and since then have used Firefox. No problems on either.

I also get logged out every so often (maybe every two months), but yeah, that's no problem.

I doubt it. I've had the same problem happen through two different ISPs, one of them via DSL and the other via dialup. And nothing has changed about my ISP configurations between the time it was working OK (before the BBS switch) and now.

Tom
It might just be me, and if so please ignore this, but when a thread gets much past one page (and I view at 50 posts per page) I tend to ignore it because I can't click into the thread to the point where I last read. This is an age-old "problem" that existed before the upgade and I know its my loss but it bugs me all the same.

My reason for mentioning it is that, for me at least, the "Old board/bug reports feedback" thread is a place I keep clear of for the reasons I mentioned above - I'd much prefer it if you un-stickied it and we started a new one to keep the thread "readable" (for people like me at least!).

Just my two cents

click the arrow to the left of the link. it will take you to the unread post.