Has this happened to anyone else?

old tom · by **old tom** on Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:38 pm

Has anyone else suddenly had the 'New posts' blue dot indicator disappear? This has happened several times to me, usually on a Sunday evening. I'm happily going thru the new posts and I'll go back to the index (expecting to see several 'new post' blue dots on topics I haven't viewed yet) and find that they have gone grey.
I then have to look at the last posting timestamps to see if I've missed anything.

Is it just me?

Brynjaminjones · by **Brynjaminjones** on Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:42 pm

Yep, that happens to me too.

KingEdward1st · by **KingEdward1st** on Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:43 pm

That happens if you navigate away from the forum. The blue dots only show up to show you posts that have happened since your last visit. It just assumes that when you visited you read all the posts that had happened. I think!

by **Joe** on Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:46 pm

This forum sometimes Logs me out before I read the first post so I have to guess which ones to read.

old tom · by **old tom** on Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:49 pm

KingEdward1st wrote:That happens if you navigate away from the forum. The blue dots only show up to show you posts that have happened since your last visit. It just assumes that when you visited you read all the posts that had happened. I think!

Not on these occasions Jake. I just view a post and return to the index using the 'click on' Rail Forum Index and they've all gone.
My guess is that Sunday night is housekeeping night and they do a backup and everyone gets put back to square one.

KingEdward1st · by **KingEdward1st** on Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:54 pm

I would imagine that. They probaly prune the system. I will contact the support team and see what they say. Thanks for pointing out the problem. Hopefully if we get rid of all these little niggles we can get a reaaaalllllyyyyy good forum.

Boris · by **Boris** on Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:45 pm

i dont have dots anymore, there notebooks.

where did this come from, it apperad when jake put the railforu,m letters down the topics.

poliss · by **poliss** on Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:20 am

Just noticed it. Signed back in, no new posts, till I looked at the times.

will · by **will** on Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:32 am

It happened to me last night.

KingEdward1st · by **KingEdward1st** on Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:42 am

Seems to be a sunday night thing...perhaps they just reboot the system?

will · by **will** on Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:43 pm

I just lost my blue dots again.

by **Joe** on Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:09 pm

mee too a while ago It logged me out so I lost them all...

Teleman · by **Teleman** on Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:11 pm

It logged me out to

KingEdward1st · by **KingEdward1st** on Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:16 pm

Seems to be a consistent problem. I have contacted them, but still no reply. I will keep trying.

old tom · by **old tom** on Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:29 pm

I have been having trouble with the 'Preview' function (It kept hanging). I guess there's been a problem and a partial re-boot has been done.

It's now back to normal.

Teleman · by **Teleman** on Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:35 pm

I,ve just lost the 'blue dots' and i know they should be there as when i logged out and there was some there , logged back in half hour later ( after my dinner) and they had gone

EDIT NOTE......
logged in today Sunday morning and the new posts i missed on saturday now have there dots back

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