Is the new post tracking busted for everyone? It seems to be behaving crazily here and I can't figure out why.

It's working from here. It was behaving a bit strange a few days ago, but now it is fine.

Hmm, it's not working here as it should. Insanity!

It's been a problem for me. It seems to be randomly deciding that I've never visited the forums.

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It's been a problem for me. It seems to be randomly deciding that I've never visited the forums.

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Mine's fine at the moment (touch wood)

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(touch wood)

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So why do you want me to stop?

SHUT UP!
JUST SHUT UP!

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It's been a problem for me. It seems to be randomly deciding that I've never visited the forums.

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How long does it last for?

I assume this never happened before the last host switch, did it?

I've been having this problem since the new site came up. Or rather, it was telling me that all forum messages were new, even if I had just viewed them. Then I found that I couldn't log out. So I deleted my cookie, logged in, and all is well with post tracking and everything.

I'd give that a shot.

I don't remember it happening before the host switch.

The first time it happened to me, it was like my cookie was deleted. In fact, I think I had to log back in, so maybe my cookie *was* deleted, but I know I didn't do it.

The second time, earlier today, every forum was showing up with a star, even those that didn't have new posts. At first it was just like I'd never visited the forums. Then I started visiting forums, and after a while it got back to where only a few threads had stars -- except it wasn't accurate. All the threads I had visited this morning were still marked as unvisited, even when they didn't have new posts.

The source of the problem when we first moved over to this tasty, tasty rackshack server was that if you didn't include the trailing slash in a URL, such as:

http://www.stripcreator.com/forums

instead of:

http://www.stripcreator.com/forums/

You'd get forwarded to:

http://stripcreator.com/forums/

And as far as the browser is concerned, www.stripcreator.com and stripcreator.com are two different sites that have two different cookies (stripcreator[1], [2], etc). We fixed the forwarding error so that now it just adds the slash and everything is more or less fine.

The other day I encountered the same problem on another site I've been working on and we had to configure it properly there as well. So I'm not totally convinced that there aren't other circumstances where this craziness could happen. I haven't had it happen on stripcreator.com since that issue was fixed though. (But admittedly I pretty much just hang out in the forums.)

Do you go through any sort of proxy to get to the web? The front page does very little with cookies, so I'm not even convinced that that cookie insanity would be causing that problem.

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Do you go through any sort of proxy to get to the web?

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Hmm, yeah, yesterday when I used my PC at home every thread got flagged with a star. I hadn't logged out or anything.

It happens to me all the time. At first it was probably my fault. But then Uncle DexX explained to me what happens when I delete my cookies. : )
However, it's still happening even with my cookie.

I want to delete several cookies and a large glass of milk. Yum!

Could I just point out that I haven't had any trouble at all with new post tracking since all the major bugs were ironed out after the move? I had some earlier, but after the backslashes were fixed I had no more problems.

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But then Uncle DexX explained to me what happens when I delete my cookies. : )

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Otter's hacked the punch.

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Ah, kaufman. I don't know whether to add you to my favorites list twice or set fire to what remains of your house, you magnificent bastard.