Bob Bressler
Napa Valley
Wine Lover
Posts:4864
 | | 07/02/2007 11:39 PM |
| | OK, something must have changed. Today, every thread took me to the first post. (Then, of course, if I went back, it was to the first unread one.) Did you zero out the data base or clear some flag? | | | |
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11879
| | 07/03/2007 3:54 AM |
| Posted By Dave on 07/02/2007 8:41 PM
This is actually different to the faulty "jump to first unread post" thing. If you want to give it a whirl, go to edit your profile and look for "Sort". It is above the jump to first unread post box. Chose "Sort Newest First" from the drop down menu.Â
Thanks for the info, Dave, but it's really not what I'm looking for. Sorting by newest first doesn't tell you where you last left off. The jump to newest post feature is a 'must have' for a BB like this.
The lack of it is one of the many things that makes eBob suck so bad.
The old software here handled unread posts just about flawlessly. | | | |
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Dave
Wine Thief
Posts:2899
| | 07/03/2007 4:30 AM |
| | Budman, you are correct. This is only a partial fix.  The saving grace though is that traffic is so light that it is rare to find a thread where I don't at least end up on the same page. | | | |
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11879
| | 07/03/2007 7:36 AM |
| | Good point! | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts:12265
| | 07/03/2007 9:45 AM |
| | Too funny. I just clicked in this thread and it took me to the first post on the first page. | |
Joe
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 07/03/2007 1:45 PM |
| "The saving grace though is that traffic is so light that it is rare to
find a thread where I don't at least end up on the same page."
Dave,  Sad but true.
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"The lack of it is one of the many things that makes eBob suck so bad."
Bud,  On eBob there is a little triangle that points down right in front of the title of each thread. Clicking on this triangle will take you to the newest unread post.
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11879
| | 07/03/2007 2:37 PM |
| | Thanks, David. I never knew that!!! | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 07/03/2007 3:34 PM |
| Today this function didn't work 9 out of 10 times.
We need this fixed asap please. | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 07/03/2007 4:08 PM |
| This is crazy. I posted about an hour ago on several threads. Then I see others have posted after me so I want to check it out. Every single one of these threads took me to the top page 1 of the thread.
I'm depressed. | | | |
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Winetex
Austin, Texas
Master of Wine
Posts:10801
| | 07/03/2007 6:08 PM |
| It's totally pitiful.
Come on Brad, this is pretty basic stuff. | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 07/20/2007 8:40 PM |
| I am very discouraged!
What I don't really understand is why it is intermittent during the same session. I'd guess that it doesn't work over 75% of the time.
Is there something that I can do differently?
Is there any hope that this can be fixed ever? | | | |
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11879
| | 07/21/2007 7:21 AM |
| | Same problem here. It's discouraging. | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts:12265
| | 07/21/2007 9:12 AM |
| I thought I had developed a pattern but alas it didn't hold water. My first thought was that if you've never visited the thread since the migration then you'll always be taken to the first post of the thread. Period. That does seem to happen from what I can tell. However, I was just taken to the first post of the Washington DC thread which was numped 40 days ago and I know I saw Jimmy's bump. So now I'm thinking not only is it an issue of when you last visited the thread it's also a cookie issue. If your cookie has been cleared since then (my were manually cleared, many are cleared automatically after 30+days by your browser) then poof! Back to the first post you go. There's also a minor variant theory going on here that if you click twice in error (slow sight performance) bam! You go to the first page in error. Add it all up and it equals a frustrating browsing experience.
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Joe
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Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone. | |
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11879
| | 07/21/2007 10:06 AM |
| | Joe... I visited a brand new thread for the second time in a single day. My second browse STILL took me to the first post... all in one day. Frustrating! | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts:12265
| | 07/21/2007 11:41 AM |
| | OK. I give. There is no pattern. The software is broken and apparently not being fixed. | |
Joe
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Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone. | |
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Dave
Wine Thief
Posts:2899
| | 07/21/2007 11:49 AM |
| | For me there are worse problems (search function). The software always takes me to the page of the thread that has the last unread post. I can live with having to scroll up or down a post or two. | | | |
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wineismylife
Arlington, TX
Master of Wine
Posts:12265
| | 07/21/2007 11:56 AM |
| | That's my biggest beef as well since I post so many tasting notes. Search sucks. | |
Joe
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Wine is like potato chips around me...if it's open, it's gone. | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
Master Sommelier
Posts:15756
| | 07/22/2007 9:32 PM |
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Posted By Budman on 07/21/2007 10:06 AM
Joe... I visited a brand new thread for the second time in a single day. My second browse STILL took me to the first post... all in one day. Frustrating! This happens all the time.
And I just wrote a fairly long post for the What I'm Drinking thread, hit submit, and it disappeared forever.
I'm giving up for now. If we get this fixed let me know. I would really like to be on the forum more than any other.
I'll be around.
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Bob Bressler
Napa Valley
Wine Lover
Posts:4864
| | 07/22/2007 11:51 PM |
| | I think I recall Brad saying that the last read position was stored in a database, not cookies. Maybe access to that database is asynchronous? or slow? or has lock problems? Probably switching back to cookies is outside the scope of what Brad can change. At the risk of being flamed, I would just assume go back to the original software. | | | |
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11879
| | 07/23/2007 4:29 AM |
| | I have yet to see an aspect of the new software that's any better than the old. | | | |
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