CharlesRyan
Adventurer
In the thread titled "Is something wrong?," someone complained that it appeared to him that there were no new threads in his favorite forum since December 8th.
I have this problem all the time: I go to a forum, and what shows up on my screen is a snapshot of what the forum looked like several days ago. Currently (Dec 12th), the topmost forum directory is stuck on December 3rd, and has been since, well, Dec. 3rd. Every time I go there, I see the threads as they appeared at 11:30 AM, Dec. 3rd. Heck, in the upper right corner of the screen, it tells me that the time is now 11:30 AM, Dec. 3rd.
Other fora and ENworld pages are stuck in different time zones. For example, the ENworld front page is stuck on December 5th. So is the General RPG Discussion board directory.
Now, I'm posting this message for two reasons: because I'd like to have this fixed, and to offer a workaround for others with this problem.
First, getting it fixed. Apparently, this isn't too common a problem (otherwise nobody would ever use these boards), but it does seem to happen a lot. I work at WotC, and virtually everyone I've spoken with here at WotC has had the problem on occasion (if not constantly). It came up in a conversation with some friends over at Green Ronin; they've had the problem as well. Now I come and check the Meta boards, and the first thread I open describes the same problem. Clearly, it's pretty widespread.
I emailed Morrus about it a couple of months ago, and he recommended some possible solutions at my end. I'd tried most of them already, but I gave it another shot: purging cookies, purging the cache, disabling cookies, force-refreshing, etc. Some of these steps worked--once. (That is, they caused the page to load the current date--but then, the page was stuck on that date when I checked it later. . . .) But it's become clear to me that this is a server problem, not a client problem.
Next: The workaround. To get a page to show you its current version, go to it via a link you've never used before. For example, to get to the current version of the "D20 System & OGL Games" forum, open a thread you've never read before (it doesn't matter what forum you're in, just as long as the thread is new to you.) Scroll to the bottom of the thread, where you'll find the Forum Jump pull-down menu. Select "D20 System & OGL Games," and it should take you to the current version of that page.
Hope that helps. I look forward to a solution, because the workaround is a pain in the butt. Thanks to the ENworld staff for an otherwise great site!
I have this problem all the time: I go to a forum, and what shows up on my screen is a snapshot of what the forum looked like several days ago. Currently (Dec 12th), the topmost forum directory is stuck on December 3rd, and has been since, well, Dec. 3rd. Every time I go there, I see the threads as they appeared at 11:30 AM, Dec. 3rd. Heck, in the upper right corner of the screen, it tells me that the time is now 11:30 AM, Dec. 3rd.
Other fora and ENworld pages are stuck in different time zones. For example, the ENworld front page is stuck on December 5th. So is the General RPG Discussion board directory.
Now, I'm posting this message for two reasons: because I'd like to have this fixed, and to offer a workaround for others with this problem.
First, getting it fixed. Apparently, this isn't too common a problem (otherwise nobody would ever use these boards), but it does seem to happen a lot. I work at WotC, and virtually everyone I've spoken with here at WotC has had the problem on occasion (if not constantly). It came up in a conversation with some friends over at Green Ronin; they've had the problem as well. Now I come and check the Meta boards, and the first thread I open describes the same problem. Clearly, it's pretty widespread.
I emailed Morrus about it a couple of months ago, and he recommended some possible solutions at my end. I'd tried most of them already, but I gave it another shot: purging cookies, purging the cache, disabling cookies, force-refreshing, etc. Some of these steps worked--once. (That is, they caused the page to load the current date--but then, the page was stuck on that date when I checked it later. . . .) But it's become clear to me that this is a server problem, not a client problem.
Next: The workaround. To get a page to show you its current version, go to it via a link you've never used before. For example, to get to the current version of the "D20 System & OGL Games" forum, open a thread you've never read before (it doesn't matter what forum you're in, just as long as the thread is new to you.) Scroll to the bottom of the thread, where you'll find the Forum Jump pull-down menu. Select "D20 System & OGL Games," and it should take you to the current version of that page.
Hope that helps. I look forward to a solution, because the workaround is a pain in the butt. Thanks to the ENworld staff for an otherwise great site!
