Website failures

[Dave Covey]

I'm once again fed up with receiving the following message when I select the 'since last visit' option on these pages....

The following 500 messages have been found.
( since your last visit: Thu, Jan 01, 1970, 01:00:00)


I've reported this every 3 months & its about time BSAC sorted it out!

....& why not automatically delete posts more than 3 months old? (I've often tried to answer a 'new' post, before realising its from 2002!)



(apolagies for the rant, but this site is funded by BSAC members for BSAC members & this isn't acceptable)

[iani]

I'm once again fed up with receiving the following message when I select the 'since last visit' option on these pages....

The following 500 messages have been found.
( since your last visit: Thu, Jan 01, 1970, 01:00:00)


I've reported this every 3 months & its about time BSAC sorted it out!

....& why not automatically delete posts more than 3 months old? (I've often tried to answer a 'new' post, before realising its from 2002!)



(apolagies for the rant, but this site is funded by BSAC members for BSAC members & this isn't acceptable)




Jai Yen Yen ;-)

Ian

[PeteM]

I'm once again fed up with receiving the following message when I select the 'since last visit' option on these pages....

The following 500 messages have been found.
( since your last visit: Thu, Jan 01, 1970, 01:00:00)


I've reported this every 3 months & its about time BSAC sorted it out!

....& why not automatically delete posts more than 3 months old? (I've often tried to answer a 'new' post, before realising its from 2002!)



(apolagies for the rant, but this site is funded by BSAC members for BSAC members & this isn't acceptable)




Works fine for me.

This part of the site is cookie driven, so if you either do not accept cookies or delete them or do not sign in to create the cookie then there is no way the system can know when you last visted so it defaults to its earliest date.

[Dave Covey]

Works fine for me.

This part of the site is cookie driven, so if you either do not accept cookies or delete them or do not sign in to create the cookie then there is no way the system can know when you last visted so it defaults to its earliest date.


....The website only plays up if I haven't logged in for a couple of days. If the fault was this end I'd expect probs elsewhere.

[Keith Lawrence(BSAC)]

I'm once again fed up with receiving the following message when I select the 'since last visit' option on these pages....

The following 500 messages have been found.
( since your last visit: Thu, Jan 01, 1970, 01:00:00)


I've reported this every 3 months & its about time BSAC sorted it out!

Works for me, works for other people as well! I think that this is a problem your end with cookies Dave, that's how we know when you last logged on.

May I suggest that you look at the Privacy settings within Internet Explorer - add us as a trusted site and allow our cookies and all should be fine.

Or have you got any anti-spyware software running that is blocking or deleting cookies? Again you should be able to allow us.

If your PC or browser isn't accepting and retaining our cookies then there's not a lot that anybody can do to help!

Regards

Keith L

[Dave Covey]

May I suggest that you look at the Privacy settings within Internet Explorer - add us as a trusted site and allow our cookies and all should be fine.

Or have you got any anti-spyware software running that is blocking or deleting cookies? Again you should be able to allow us.

If your PC or browser isn't accepting and retaining our cookies then there's not a lot that anybody can do to help!


Hi Keith,

My PC & anti virus software recognise BSAC website. I'll ask my webmaster for advise when he next services my computer. (I thought cookies were devoured by a large blue hairy thing on sesame street!)

[Keith Lawrence(BSAC)]

Hi Dave

There are several things that will cause what you are seeing - and they are all down to things on your side! These forums track your visits by storing tiny little files called Cookies on your local hard disc, that's how we know when you last visited. If you're not storing them, or if you're constantly switching between different computers, then we loose track of where you were on the forums. If we don't know where you were via these cookies then the forum will behave exactly as you have described.

For everything that you could ever want to know about Cookies (and and awful lot of geeky stuff that you're not interested in!) see the FAQ on the Cookie Central link below. In most cases you can sort it out by changing a few options in your internet browser settings, brief instructions on the link below.

Keith L

[Dave Covey]

Hi Dave

There are several things that will cause what you are seeing - and they are all down to things on your side! These forums track your visits by storing tiny little files called Cookies on your local hard disc, that's how we know when you last visited. If you're not storing them, or if you're constantly switching between different computers, then we loose track of where you were on the forums. If we don't know where you were via these cookies then the forum will behave exactly as you have described.

For everything that you could ever want to know about Cookies (and and awful lot of geeky stuff that you're not interested in!) see the FAQ on the Cookie Central link below. In most cases you can sort it out by changing a few options in your internet browser settings, brief instructions on the link below.

Keith L

Thanks Keith, I'll take a look