Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Seeing the same "unread posts" every time I log in

Is anyone else noticing this ? You log in, and see there are a couple of unread posts. Click onto the forums and read the posts; close the browswer window, do something else for a while*

Come back an hour or two later. Log in -- oh look, a couple of unread posts. Click into the forums containing the unread posts, hey it's the same darned posts as last time.
Repeat.

Any ideas ? Don't ask "did I change anything on the system" because I upgraded to Vista, installed all new drivers, ran fine for a while, noticed the problem with unread posts, nuked Vista, installed XP, installed all new drivers, AV software, and am in the middle of letting Windows Update have its way with my system files, and still see the same problem with unread posts.

My first thought is that it probably is not a problem with my system, even though I sure do look guilty

Do you use multiple systems? That used to happen with mine. Now they just get logged out when I use a different one.

Yes, I use a couple of different systems. As far as I know, though, I ran fine with multiple systems -- I just had a different set of "read messages" for each system, so if I worked on one system for a while I had a whole whack of unread messages when I went to the other.

Then again, I have noticed that the behavior when I crossed systems has been changing in the last week or so. Hmmm.

Does logging out clear something on the bbs server ? I thought it just touched a cookie on the client PC... but then again that is very low quality information

Yes I do notice this quite often. I'm tired of it. It's like a game is being played on me and I foolishly keep falling for it.

I only use one system with firefox as my browser. I'm not tech savvy so I couldn't explain why or how the cause of this. Help!

I've noticed that if I click on "Main Index" versus using the "Back" IE button ,that normally clears up the posts that are new, even if I close IE and come back later.

I am starting to see the same pattern now John. Posts that I have read, come back the next time I fire up my computer and check for new posts. I also have cleared out my cached temp files, etc... Hmmm

Me, too. Never had the problem before.

This is starting to bug me, if I read the posts for the 4th and 5th time, and then click on "main index" they go away. As soon as I close my browser and go back to Axiom, the old ones come back as if I have not read them... This has to be a server issue as I've tried cleaning up my IE settings.

Oh geez, I was hoping this wasn't contagious. Sorry, guys

Yes John, I'd never had the problem until after your post.