Refreshing problems.

Both the forum topics and thread watchlist pages seem to get their pages from your cache if you don't refresh them. I've tried clearing my cache, but it doesn't help.

Looks like server and/or database issues to me. I'm having trouble even posting right now, and refreshing does not help.

I'm having the OP's problem, too. Glad to know it's not my laptop's fault.

Having that problem in my PM box. Dunno about the forum itself, we'll see after I hit send.

Okay, I wasn't, but now I am.

edited 18th Jan '11 5:41:01 AM by BlackWolfe

Having similar problems here. Sometimes I have to refresh for my posts/any new posts to show up, and sometimes my posts don't even show up at all.

edited 18th Jan '11 6:06:54 AM by Miijhal

Similar problems over here. So far they've gone away when I refresh, but they might stop doing that.

I'm using chrome.

edited 18th Jan '11 7:12:03 AM by TripleElation

Same problems here. Posting is likewise a crapshoot.

Unread marks aren't updating for me anywhere.

Likewise. I've even tried purging my cache and cookies multiple times, to no avail.

EDIT AGAIN: And it won't even update the number of posts on the thread list, or bump it up to the top. Nevermind, refreshing fixed that problem.

edited 18th Jan '11 7:21:26 AM by Reflextion

It's a caching problem. Control-refresh or Control F-5 forces a refresh and overrides the cache.

I've been having the same problem. I can also confirm only refreshing the chache seems to help.

I'm having this problem. I was just in the Image Pickin' discussion for Big Beautiful Man (Madrugada was there too), and I tried to reply to his post #24, and no matter how much I submit and reload, it never appears. Even on hard-reload.

(Edit) Oh, and my post appeared here just fine, but still won't appear there.

(Edit again) Now I can't reply here. :( Same problem as in the other thread. However, I can seem to edit my existing posts.

edited 18th Jan '11 8:34:24 AM by Gilgameshkun

It may be the same problem I have. Whenever I post, as soon as I quit and reenter the thread, it reverts back to what it was before. As in, you post, and then it deletes it. I think.

Is this temporary (I hope)?

well, that explains it. i was about to ask if i'd broken the rules and been thunmped/banned

Odd, a PM I had already answered just popped up and won't go away, even though it had already gone away previously.

@Spain: No, it's a new feature. Eddie's trying to make the forum as difficult to use as possible as an alternative to just plain killing it off.

Reminds me a bit of the very, very early days of the Nation States forums — the stories that "you could only post uninterrupted between 2 and 3 in the morning" isn't all too exaggerated. Wonder if this too will result in loads of octuple posts from people who hit back and submit too many times when their post didn't show up at first. :P

So does anybody have any idea what's going on here?

Same problem

@ nekoalexa: The whatsit isn't saving stuff to the cache thingy, I guess. That guy will probably fix it with a forum thingamajigger so it gets unborked.

... I'm not really good with computer words okay.

Sounds to me like the server's sending the wrong answer for the "page expires" line in the HTTP headers. Ordinarily the expiration date is the moment you send it. Either the server's clock got screwed up, or its Apache is going wonky right now.

Is there any way to override the expiration date browser-side, or do we just keep hitting control-F5?

I have to log back in like three times before I can post anything now.

^^If the problem is what Goggle Fox described, then no, not really.