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[pfm10]

This problem may seem quite old by now, but I've been noticing it for a while and just found this discussion. I've run into it on multiple threads, and wondered why the page did not load before I remember to scroll down to the first post. It is evident in this thread as well (hopefully I won't have problems attaching the pics as evidence). And it happens when I check my forum settings in the control panel.

It seems the problem occurs when someone creates a post that stretches the main area further than the normal amount. Usually this is when someone adds a pic that is wider than the normal main area. In this thread's case it occurred when ftyuv added the preformatted text.

[CowbellGuy]

Well, the alternative is to have the contents of the too-wide post cover up the menubar, which probably isn't ideal either.

[Josh '99]

[quote CowbellGuy]Well, the alternative is to have the contents of the too-wide post cover up the menubar, which probably isn't ideal either.[/quote]Or to have the menubar on the left.  :-P

[Beeeej]

So, this morning I opened up eLF, and was automagically logged in as usual.  I was a little surprised to see 108 new posts in the Hockey forum, but I thought perhaps there'd been a Thursday night game that some people followed.

Then I opened the Hockey forum, and saw "99 new" next to the "Cornell-Hahvahd - where to watch" thread title.  Strange, I thought to myself - it's only got 100 posts, and I made several of them myself.

Sure enough, I opened that thread, and other than the first message in the thread, all messages were marked "new," including my own.  I probably won't have trouble finding which ones are actually new based on their timestamps, and then I can "mark thread read," so this particular glitch will be over with.  But I'd say it's certainly a glitch, wouldn't you?

[Chris '03]

I think it's because the "where to watch" thread was merged with the "where to watch- socal" thread.

[Rita]

[quote Beeeej]So, this morning I opened up eLF, and was automagically logged in as usual.  I was a little surprised to see 108 new posts in the Hockey forum, but I thought perhaps there'd been a Thursday night game that some people followed.

Then I opened the Hockey forum, and saw "99 new" next to the "Cornell-Hahvahd - where to watch" thread title.  Strange, I thought to myself - it's only got 100 posts, and I made several of them myself.

Sure enough, I opened that thread, and other than the first message in the thread, all messages were marked "new," including my own.  I probably won't have trouble finding which ones are actually new based on their timestamps, and then I can "mark thread read," so this particular glitch will be over with.  But I'd say it's certainly a glitch, wouldn't you?[/quote]

I was wondering how Howie got his So-Cal viewing party post to the top of that thread (and the threads merged- there was a separate So-Cal one last night). Maybe the moderators were in the mood to streamline threads ;-).

[Beeeej]

Ah.  Well, then, combining threads is obviously not a consequence-free proposition.  Now that we know that, in the future can we just ask the poster to repost his message in the proper thread, then delete his extraneous thread, instead of also inconveniencing the rest of us?  :-)

[CowbellGuy]

That merge obviously didn't go as planned. The big thread got added to the small thread, rather than the other intended way. And as you seem to have discovered, the thread loses its read-messages status, so I'll be more judicious about it in the future.

[ugarte]

[quote CowbellGuy]That merge obviously didn't go as planned. The big thread got added to the small thread, rather than the other intended way. And as you seem to have discovered, the thread loses its read-messages status, so I'll be more judicious about it in the future.[/quote]I figured that is what happened but you still haven't apologized to Beeeej for the considerable inconvenience you put him through.

[CowbellGuy]

I'll buy him a cheap American beer at dinner.

[Beeeej]

Woohoo!

[redheadfanatic]

Every time that I have gotten on the forum today, i have gotten the New Private Messages button at the top of my page.  I've only had new private mesages twice.  Has this been happening to anyone else?

[ebilmes]

[quote redheadfanatic]Every time that I have gotten on the forum today, i have gotten the New Private Messages button at the top of my page.  I've only had new private mesages twice.  Has this been happening to anyone else?[/quote]

Yeah, when I've been getting PMs, they've been coming in groups of 2 or 3 identical PMs. I don't know if this is because the sender is pressing the button multiple times, or there's a glitch in the system.

[David Harding]

It used to be that my messages got a time stamp that reflected the Eastern time zone, even though they come from the Central time zone.  Now it's Mountain Daylight Time.  Or maybe Central Standard Time.

[CowbellGuy]

Do you have your time zone and DST set correctly in your control center?