Forums seem to be loosing the Unread message status

[rtaylor61]

I seem to hve a timeout problem when I do long responses. The program locks up and never saves the message. The bad thing is I loose the response because there's no way to block and copy once it locks up.

Joe,

This happened to me about three times before I started copying and pasting to a word document before hitting "send".

RT

[azjoe]

...when I do long responses. The program locks up and never saves the message.

I've had that happen to me on a couple occasions, too. In most, if not all, of the cases I had previously logged out and forgotten to check "remember me" when I logged in prior to the long edit session. Since I started paying attention to that (keeping it checked) I can't recall having the problem. I've also noticed similar issues when I open several incidences of the browser and inadvertently close/let timeout one of them. I promise we're going to upgrade the forum to the latest version in the very near future... hopefully many of these issues will go away when we do that.

FYI... Speaking of Word, I personally have gotten in the habit of composing long responses in Word (I need the spell checker ) and then cut/past them into the forum edit box when I'm essentially ready to send. Okay... so we need an integrated spell checker, too...

[azjoe]

Okay... so we need an integrated spell checker, too...

Ha! I checked on spell checkers and found that vBulletin does not recommend an integrated spell checker due to the increased load it places on the server sending spellcheck data back and forth to your computer. Instead they recommend a client-based (ie, the browser on your PC) solution. I installed the one for Firefox (which is the primary browser I use) and it works VERY well... you can find it [here]. I'm sure there are similar solutions for IE, Opera, etc. if you look for them.

[Joe Lerch]

I've had that happen to me on a couple occasions, too. In most, if not all, of the cases I had previously logged out and forgotten to check "remember me" when I logged in prior to the long edit session. Since I started paying attention to that (keeping it checked) I can't recall having the problem.

That can't be the reason why it happens to me. I always keep it checked.

Also, I'm on several other boards that use the same software. THis is the only one where I hav that problem.

[azjoe]

I'm on several other boards that use the same software. THis is the only one where I hav that problem.

Joe, could you PM me the links to those sites so I can check their settings for a couple things?

[azjoe]

Okay... as a followup, now that we've upgraded to the new version of the forum and are tracking read status via actual reads instead of cookies, how's it working?

Vlad, Joe, X, Gary, Randy... has this solved the problem?

[gfoster]

Yep, works a treat!

-- Gary F.

[xman]

Things seem on the up and up. Your advice with regards to inserting links seems to work too.

X

[vladsch]

Not only does the read status work better, I find the rest of the improvements great. I really like the new editor.

Thanks for the upgrade.

[Joe Lerch]

Okay... as a followup, now that we've upgraded to the new version of the forum and are tracking read status via actual reads instead of cookies, how's it working?

Vlad, Joe, X, Gary, Randy... has this solved the problem?

Just from a brief try-out the system seems faster and more responsive.