New Posts?

[Sean1]

Hi,
When I click on "New Posts" and select any of the four I get "Sorry, no matches, please try different terms."
Any reason why new posts aren't showing up?
Thank you,

Sean

[Miss Hepburn]

I know. Maybe someone else can give a reason. A couple yrs a go finally someone told me what to do -
now I'm simply used to it --but it can be a bother for some people.

Upper right corner Click on your 'History', a list drops down, Click onto 'History', then click 'Clear recent history',
then, a box will come up
Click ONLY 'Cache' and then 'OK'.
Try it again and it will work.

Crazy. I do it many times a day.

[bobjob]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

I know. Maybe someone else can give a reason. A couple yrs a go finally someone told me what to do -
now I'm simply used to it --but it can be a bother for some people.

Upper right corner Click on your 'History', a list drops down, Click onto 'History', then click 'Clear recent history',
then, a box will come up
Click ONLY 'Cache' and then 'OK'.
Try it again and it will work.

Crazy. I do it many times a day.

I'd love to try your tip but where do I find 'History'?

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by bobjob

I'd love to try your tip but where do I find 'History'?

Scan the Icons in the upper right corner of your screen - what they 'are' should show up for you.
(or Click them, also, they won't bite ...and just see the list that drops down.)
Mine says 'View history, bookmarks,and more'. Click that one.
Next icon says "Sidebars"
Another says "Open Menus", for example.

[bobjob]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Scan the Icons in the upper right corner of your screen - what they 'are' should show up for you.
(or Click them, also, they won't bite ...and just see the list that drops down.)
Mine says 'View history, bookmarks,and more'. Click that one.
Next icon says "Sidebars"
Another says "Open Menus", for example.

I'm not seeing the same as you - what device are you using? I have various computers but the page always looks the same - top right of any page is welcome, my username
You last visited:
Private Messages

Am I looking at the wrong page?

[Native spirit]

Top right hand corner it says Customise and control panel Bobjob it does on google Chrome


Namaste

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by bobjob

I'm not seeing the same as you - what device are you using? I have various computers but the page always looks the same - top right of any page is welcome, my username
You last visited:
Private Messages

Am I looking at the wrong page?

Seems you are looking at Spiritual Forum's page. Maybe mine IS different ...above Sp Forum's page is the address of the SF's page and other Icons. Hmm. I have Firefox...dunno if that makes a difference.

On my LEFT very top it says things like: File View History Bookmarks Tools Help all that shows whatever I'm looking at, say, a youtube. you?

[kralaro]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Maybe someone else can give a reason.

Okay. For example, "New Posts" -> "Previous Visit" links to:
http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/search.php?do=getnew
Now this gets redirected to something like:
http://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/search.php?searchid=1837543
The browser remembers this redirection and when next time the 1st URL is clicked (do=getnew) the browser automatically redirects to the 2nd URL (searchid=1837543) without asking Spiritual Forums website. The 2nd URL may get expired but the browser doesn't know. SF may be offering a new URL with a fresh "searchid" but the browser doesn't ask SF because it has remembered (CACHED) the previous redirection and is sticking to it. That's why need to clear the cache so that the browser forgets the previous redirection and make it listen to SF when SF is offering a new redirection.

With a tiny change in SF's script, SF can tell the browser that the redirection isn't permanent, and not to cache the redirection.

For the workaround, you guys are using mouse but using shortcut keys is faster. In my Firefox on Linux, i press the following keys: Alt+s -> c -> Enter. Or another way: Ctrl+Shift+Delete -> Enter. But for this i've set time range to clear to be the shortest: last hour and to clear only cache:

[bobjob]

I hope members find the workarounds do the biz for them but what a shame a workaround is necessary. I don't experience any problems elsewhere.

What I also find is that clicking a link to reach an updated thread I often end up on a random page rather than the last posting. For example I might see a new posting notification when scanning the forum lists, click on it and get taken to -say - page 3 of a 5 page thread. From there I then have to navigate to the most recent posting.

Having to do that I find more a pain than needing to scan for new postings in the first place! But like many inconveniences I've learned to live with 'em and others may never see these glitches if they don't visit as often as I do.

Perhaps I should just stay away longer and visit less!

[Sean1]

Thanks for all of your responses...I will give your suggestions a whirl and keep my fingers crossed. :-)

I perused the upper right-hand corner and can't find "history" anywhere. I looked around in other places as well, with no success.