When I am on the today page...

[GasX]

On one of my computers the "My recent posts" list always shows blue icons for every post - as if there is a new post since my last vist. What setting will fix this so it gets it right?

 

[imported_Mike]

the most recent post applies to each computer, so if you were on one and viewed everything then went to another, there will still be "unread" posts...

 

[GasX]

true, but it even happens when I haven't used the other PC for a while...

 

[GasX]

 

[imported_Mike]

hmm, i must not understand the problem...

I thought that when your on 1 pc and you move to another pc(even if you havnt used pc #2 in awhile)and although there are no new post since you last viewed them on pc #1, on pc#2 the today page shows that you havnt read all the posts. is that not the problem? or am i just retarded?

 

[GasX]

One PC works fine the other doesn't. I want to know what the setting is that makes them different. I figure it is an IE privacy or security setting, I just don't know which one.

 

[godmare]

afaik, it's cookies.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: godmare
afaik, it's cookies.

more specific, please?

 

[godmare]

Anandtech sends cookies to your puter, or updates a current cookie, when you view a given thread. If there is a reply since your cookie was updated, the thread icon will indicate so.
If you're on a computer with an old cookie, then there have been replies to many more threads since the date of the cookie, and so the thread icon indicates.
If you clear cookies on your computer then visit the forums, you'll get a new cookie, and most of the threads you've posted in will not show a reply.
Make sense?

 

[GasX]

I cleared the cookies and still it shows all posts as having been updated...

 

[dfi]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I cleared the cookies and still it shows all posts as having been updated...

Well if you clear the cookie, then wouldn't it show ALL posts as updated? Since there are no cookie, the web page doesn't know what the specific computer has seen or not, and thus shows all posts as updated. Am I missing something here?

Maybe this is the confusion: your account has nothing to do with what posts show as updated. You can log into a million brand new, completely different computers using the same account and you will be told all posts have been updated a million times. Once a computer has been used, the website will send that computer a cookie to keep track of what that computer has seen and not seen. Upon the next visit, the computer will look at the cookie and say "ok, these posts are new, but those are not."

dfi

 

[GasX]

Let me be clear...

ALL THE ENVELOPES ARE BLUE ALL THE TIME! IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT SCENARIO YOU TAKE ME THROUGH!

I believe there is an IE setting that will change this, but I don't know what it is...

 

[GasX]

 

[godmare]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Let me be clear...

ALL THE ENVELOPES ARE BLUE ALL THE TIME! IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT SCENARIO YOU TAKE ME THROUGH!

I believe there is an IE setting that will change this, but I don't know what it is...

umm, do you have cookies enabled at all?

 

[GasX]

yes, I can login and stay logged in...

 

[Rallispec]

Originally posted by: godmare

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Let me be clear...

ALL THE ENVELOPES ARE BLUE ALL THE TIME! IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT SCENARIO YOU TAKE ME THROUGH!

I believe there is an IE setting that will change this, but I don't know what it is...

umm, do you have cookies enabled at all?

i have cookies enabled and get the same problem.... i've never really thought twice about it though. In fact, it took me forever to realize that they were supposed to change colors after the've been read or have new posts.

oh well. I like my blue folders.

 

[GasX]

I am still

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I am still

 

[godmare]

I think I'm stumped, dude. Sorry.

Are your security and privacy settings stringent?