Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Forum response falling behind.
Dennis in Southern Oregon
I'm kind of curious as to why the Forum software's response to visits is often hours or days behind. Often, I will get a response that reflects conditions the day before. Sometimes, but not always, this is immediately overwritten by a new response that is more timely. Just now I logged in and was told that 1 new message has been posted since my last visit at 7:28 p yesterday. In fact, I have logged in several times today.
Re: Forum response falling behind.
John K Jordan
Is it still delayed after you manually refresh your browser?
Re: Forum response falling behind.
Dennis in Southern Oregon
Dunno, I'll check. Thanks
Re: Forum response falling behind.
John K Jordan
Mine is always behind. I have to manually refresh every time I read messages, whether on my iPad or Windows computer.
Re: Forum response falling behind.
Dennis in Southern Oregon
Thanks John. I have to admit that after all these years, I had never heard of the concept. Had to do a search to find out how to do it> 
Re: Forum response falling behind.
Doug Ladendorf
I have to refresh as well. Thought it was just my software.
Re: Forum response falling behind.
David DeCristoforo
This is a result of "modern" web browsers which cache pages or parts of pages on your local drive. Done to make pages appear to load faster when you revisit them. Unfortunately, the browsers do not appear to be "smart" enough to figure out when new stuff has been added and simply serve up the old cached data. Refreshing the page is kind of like a smack in the head to wake them up. Dumping the browser cache is better. All browsers have an "empty cache" option somewhere in the menus.
