Updating threads?

[Laura B]

For the past week or so, whenever I pull up the main thread list of any given board or the home list of the boards, the times that the threads were last updated are wrong. It will show a post from a few days ago as being the most recent one. If I hit refresh, it shows the correct information. I have had a similar problem with my PMs. Could this just be my computer, or are other people experiencing this, too? It is sort of frustrating!

[CLModerator]

Hi Laura,

It could be because your computer stores those pages in its memory and therefore they don't get "refreshed."

If you bookmark the site, use http://www.cookinglight.com/vbb/index.php and then enter the Great Food board (or other board) manually.

That may solve your problem.

Jennifer

[Laura B]

Thanks for responding, Jennifer. I am still really confused and annoyed by this little quirk (and it could be totally on my end, I have no idea). I do have the site bookmarked and always enter through my bookmark, not through the CL main web page. Also, I navigate through the pages using the links within the boards, and this happens through any and all of those links.

An example of what is happening to me: I will be reading a thread on the Other Stuff board (this happens to me on all of the boards and the home page, though) and I will reach the end and use the "hop to" button to go back to the board I was reading or to another board. When the main page of the board comes up, it will say that the last post was made on 1-24-02 at 3:45 pm even though it is 2-01-02. At any given time it will say that the last post was made earlier that day (when really it was made a few minutes ago) or some pervious day. I am finding that I have to refresh almost EVERY time I enter a new page to see when the last post really occured. I guess it has been a week or more now and I am really losing patience with it.

Does this sound like this is my computer?? Is there something I can do to make it stop?

Any of you reading this, have you experienced this at all? Please respond if you have. It's driving me crazy!!

[CLModerator]

What type browswer are you using (Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL, etc)?

Let me know and we'll try changing your "history" and "cache" options.

[Laura B]

I use Internet Explorer Version 5.5. Thanks for your help!

[CLModerator]

Hi Laura,

Give this a shot and see how it works.

In Internet Explorer, click on Tools>Internet Options.

In the window that comes up, under "General" click on "Settings."

Where it says "Check for newer versions of stored pages" -- make that setting "Every visit to the page."

Also, under General, click "Empty" by "Temporary Internet Files."

See if that works.

Jennifer

[Laura B]

Thank you so much Jennifer, but it did not work. :( I followed your advice this morning, and my problems persisted. I waited to post about it until I got home and checked again after my computer had been turned off and back on. Still having the problem. Any other thoughts? I guess I'll just keep hitting refresh for now!