Hi everyone, I want to give an update. First Theo (mielabor), let me take one issue at a time.
#1 First, when I click one of the "new style" threads that have the indicators and then return, either by using the browser's "Previous" button or by using the "Back to Index" button on the page, there is no change: the indicator still says "Wash" and the thread# keeps having a blue colour.
OK the issue is with Mac computers on OSX 10.4.11 using Safari. Kevin reported that Firefox wasn't working on 10.4.11 as well, but he emailed me to let me know that he was mistaken as its working perfectly. I do not have access the a OSX 10.4.11 mac computer, our macs all are on 10.5 or later. So I just put in a code fix to disable link coloring in users of Safari on 10.4.11. What that will do is allow the browser to control the link colors so the links should turn to purple now if they have been viewed. I checked the system logs and thankfully it appears only 9 out of 222 members who posted in the past week are using 10.4.11 and Safari, so for those members the icons will stay stuck in wash until I can figure out the Safari issue. Theo and Keven can you please check Safari on your computer and let me know if my fix worked and the links are now changing back to purple. Thanks guys!
#2, Theo I don't understand the difference between #1 and #2, they seem the same to me.
#3 When I click an old style thread and return to the index using the "Back to Index" button on the page, I get this:
That's not an issue, the old style threads have a link in them that is no longer valid. I had a automatic re-direct set on that old link, but some users were reporting that it was causing them to get stuck and using the back arrow didn't take them back. That is very annoying as you get stuck at a certain location like on some unscrupulous porn websites that try and get you stuck on their page, (of course I've only heard about that happening on certain sites ;-) ***blushes***) I certainly don't want that here!
I want the old style threads to fall off and go into the archives so that link will be updated on them. Starting next week I'm going to start closing any open old style thread. If there are threads that are still of interest I would appreciate if you guys would start a new one with "Continued" or something like that. An example of a thread like that is the BobLoad dishwasher thread in the Deluxe Forum. Again, any old style thread is one that was created before February 24th, 2010.
I am using Firefox 3.6 and when I use 'Back to Index', the page refreshes correctly but it always refreshes to the top of the page so that if I had scrolled down more than a page previously I have to scroll down again. Is there a way for it to return/refresh to the same place on the page?
Gary I have no control over that, that is the browser. What you could do is use your back arrow and then hit refresh, it will keep you on the index exactly where you landed.
More to come.