Weird Log-in Shtuff

[Kevy Baby]

When I log into LoT at work on my PC (using Firefox), it will properly display the last time I logged in (in today's example, it was 11:00-ish last night). However, when I click on the "New Posts" button (either of them), it gives me a message saying there are no new messages since my last visit. If I move forward, it will show my last visit as being the time I just logged in - 1 minute ago.

To find the latest messages since 11:00 last night, I had to do an advanced find of messages for the last 20 hours.

WTF is going on?!?

[€uroMeinke]

There is a disturbance in the force...

Is the work PC behind a firewall? This often happens to me at work - I think I have a lag time in my network that sometimes keeps me logged in indefinately even when I shut down.

[Kevy Baby]

Is the work PC behind a firewall?No.

What always strikes me as odd is that it is a normal log-in, showing the last time I signed in, but as soon as I try to see the "new posts" - bam: wiped out.

Maybe its the goddesses telling me I shouldn't be signing on at work.

[Moonliner]

No.


No? No Firewall? Sounds like new messages at LoT are the least of your worries. :eek:

It's a long shot, since I doubt it matters, but have you checked your PC's system time,date and time zone?

[Monorail Man]

It actually deals with the weird NAT-ness of the IP addresses. Lot/MC use to do the same for me at school. The cookies like to bounce around, and log you in-out. Nice thing is that vB 3.5 uses the database to track read messages, so no more cookie issues. :)

[Kevy Baby]

Nice thing is that vB 3.5 uses the database to track read messages, so no more cookie issues. :)3.5? I thought the current version was 3.07?

[Ghoulish Delight]

3.5 is in Beta and on it's way. They're skipping right on pst 3.1-3.4 because there are some pretty significant architectural differences (but not going to 4.0 becaue the feature set and overall look remain largely the same).

[Kevy Baby]

FWIW,

Got the issue again. This time at home on my Mac (where I had been logeed inearlier and didn't log off - I never log off). Weird.

Also, I've always wondered how VB (I've seen this on other boards) can have more posts than views:
http://home.mindspring.com/~kevin_elder/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/evidence.gif

I also wonder why I care about such trivial shtuff

[Ghoulish Delight]

The host has been a little flakey lately. Sometimes after it's gone down, once it's come back up things like that get reset.