I recently got IE7.
Now I can't get new messages to show up on the forums. It shows on the forum main page that there was a message posted; but when I go to the thread, there isn't a new message. Refreshing/reloading does nothing.
Any ideas what to do?

EDIT - it only seems to happen in some of the forums, not all of them.

Friends don't let friends use booleans.

I dunno. Have you tried Firefox?

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Most likely your old cookies somehow have a newer date than the date on current pages so you are seing a cached version of the pages.

Do you remember your password? If you do log out of renderosity and close IE7, then reopen and log back in. That should wipe out cookies for the site.

If you are like me and stay logged in forever and can't remember your password you can change it while you are logged in from the top of your "My Profile" page from member options at the right of the screen. You can also change your email there.

If you just come back to the site and can't remember your password there will be a link under the login to send your password to your email.

If this doesn't work you can clear the entire browser cache. This can not only delete Renderosity cookies. If you are not careful it can wipe out every password for every site you visit. From your IE menu pick tools from the line that says :

File Edit View Favorites Tools Help

Pull all the way down to the bottom entry that says Internet Options

The first tab on thte left should be General

The second section down should be Browsing History

There will be two buttons called Delete and Settings

Click settings and check your refresh settings. If you are set to never check for a newer webpage that's your problem. Click another button for another choice. If you have a fast connection you should always be checking  for a new connection. The things in the middle are for slow dialup, but if you only check for new webpages when you open IE then you are going to have to quit and come back any time you want to read a reply in the forums.

You can delete cookies from te Delete menu but you can easily wipe out all you other passwords and form data. The most you should try from there now is to clear temporary internet files.

If none of this works ask again.

I'm having the same problem with Safari 2.0.4.

Well, at least these replies showed. It would be pretty ironic if I couldn't see the solution to the problem because of the problem, if you know what I mean.

I just tryed to change the password. I don't remember my current password.
Got:
"Error: Please go back, correct the errors, and try again."
Didn't say what the error(s) was.
I didn't even enter anything, just clicked on the link; how could there be an error? :tongue1:

I'm configured to check for new pages every visit to every web page.
I'm not emptying my cache again. I did that when they changed something else and said that you had to do that to continue using the website. It caused all sorts of inconveniences.
I'm not going to fiddle with my internet settings to comply with Renderosity's HTML either. They should just try to use standard Web protocols on the site, like the rest of the world does. I'd guess that I've had more problems with this site than all the other sites I've ever visited combined.

Thanks for trying to help though, electroglyph.

Friends don't let friends use booleans.

Oops.

There's an error because the my profile page wants you to fill in all the blocks that have red asterix(*) next to them before it will let you do anything else. Not that this helps you much because you still need your old password before you can select a new one from this form.

There is still the option to logout and have the password sent to your email if you are not already sick of big brother. As a person who already gets about 500 emails a day for penis enlargement, bigger breasts, hot singles, free (boarders, red lobster, best buy..)cards, mortgage refinance, Pleas from sierra leone to help unlock unclaimed millions, viagra, hair club for men, godiva chocolate, republican national comittee, focus on the family, democratic national comittee, the communist party, the american national socialist party, starbucks, etc. I am not concerned if I get on still another mailing list. Bondwire already has my street address anyway but its up to you.

ummm Two things...First, Firefox.... I use it, and recommend it to anyone who's tired of slow and rounabout IE.... I ALSO still have IE on my sys, it just isn't the "preferred" browser..... Cookies.. one way of doing that is kind-of draconian..... under internet settings, you have the option to clear cookies, as well as the cache... like I said, it's draconian, and you'll have to log-in to everywhere you go, the first time you go there.

  Hey, eletroglyph... you, too?.... do you get the mascara ones, too? Some of this stuff seems SO stupid.... why would somebody send a penis enlarger offer to someone who's also getting breast enlargement offers? maybe on the side, they sell sex change? :lol:  Lou.

"..... and that was when things got interestiing."

I really get a chuckle sometimes when I get Godiva Chocolate and then Slim Fast right after. How about AARP or hearing aids then Gerber grow up plan or Disney reading club? Of course if you really were 65 but ordered that Enzyte from smilin' Bob it might be possible.

To me the problem seems to be a timeout issue.. doesn't seem you are getting all of the page you are visiting.

JUst started using IE7 meself, no problems here though it did take a bit of getting used to....

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Have you tried clicking CTRL+F5? That does a hard refresh of your browser..so anything that might be hanging in an old cache might clear out with that ;)

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I had some problems when I first switched to IE7 as well but logging out and in seemed to fix it (unless I'm just not noticing it any more.) Since it's just some of the forums maybe you could name one and I can look and see if it happens to me too. 

Another possibility is your internet provider. Several years ago I used a thing called Blue Light given out free by K-Mart. It was absolutely free dialup but the homepage had K-Mart ads and specials. They were using a thing called persistant caching. To restrict their bandwidth they fed pages from a cache on their servers. They would get a snapshot of Yahoo every few minutes. The page at Yahoo might refresh but the pages Blue Light sent out didn't refresh until they loaded a new page every 15-20 minutes (they never said how long exactly). If your provider is caching there is nothing you can do except switch providers.

Well, maybe isn't even certain forums, just certain threads.
This thread worked, and has been.
The thread in the Bryce forum here called "Saving Bryce scenes corrupts file"; however, shows Matcreator as the last poster. When I load that thread, I'm not seeing his post.
I tried ctrl + F5 but that didn't load anything differently.
I've had the same kind of thing in the 3ds max forum also. There's a thread there now that I can't read the last post: "Cloth dynamic on Poser imports"; I can't read thenodemaster's post. The rest of that forum is all right. A newer post in another thread is showing up, just like here. These posts here are newer than MatCreator's post but are showing, his isn't.

I don't think it's page caching like that, Electroglyph.
Wouldn't I have that everywhere else too then? And wouldn't that affect every thread?
I use AOL. Do they do that?

Friends don't let friends use booleans.

Could AOL be filtering out certain words that they deem to be offensive? I don't recall the Matcreator thread, or specific posts, having anything that some filter wouldn't like.. but with AOL, anything is possible.

For fun, take a look at any filtering featurs IE might have or AOL might have.

I've been using IE7 since the beta and haven't had any problems, especially nothing like missing posts.

I went to "Saving Scene Corrupts File" Mat creator shows as the last poster. When I open the thread I can read his post. The posts are all straight text with nothing fancy that might upset the browser.

AOL has plenty of bandwidth. I doubt they cache. I only mentioned it as a remote possibility.

I still think logging out and back in will help. When you go to log back in there will be a link  below that says something like "Forgot password?" use this and they will email your password to the account you gave when you first signed up. If you no longer have this account or are afraid that you will never log back in then I suggest  you IM agentsmith or zhan hile you are still logged in. The community Center with sndcastie and StaceyG are also supposed to help with forum problems. I'm out of ideas.