Cookies and the spinny

[jerrys]

Hey,
I don't know if this is helpful or not. But I noticed that if I have cookies off (e.g. the firefox cookie monster) but javascript on, then it seems like the page with the spinny reloads over and over. Turning on session cookies made it stop doing that. I don't know if that matters, just mentioning. (e.g. maybe it means spiders are going into infinite loops or something).

[Gary Teter]

I've noticed this as well and we plan to investigate. It's not a super huge priority at the moment since you need cookies enabled to actually do stuff on our site but they shouldn't be required to just look at things.

[The ShadowShackleton]

I totally thought this thread was going to be about Liz the cookie master. I am disappoint.

[Lilith]

The ShadowShackleton wrote:

I totally thought this thread was going to be about Liz the cookie master. I am disappoint.

Me too!

[Aubrey the Malformed]

Well, I have cookies on as far as I can tell and am getting the spinny at home, and simply can't get into any sub-forums. It's been like this for a couple of days. It's very disappointing.

[Gary Teter]

I have been trying to duplicate a bug all day and I think I just figured it out. I don't think it's the same bug but just in case it's related: If you are using Focus, try clicking the Defocus link at the top of the forums page and then navigating to a sub-forum. If that doesn't help and you have cookies enabled, we'll investigate more.

[Aubrey the Malformed]

Sorry, it doesn't help. Again, it's OK on this computer, my work one (slow, but OK) but it doesn't work for my home computer. Still just getting the spinny.

[Aubrey the Malformed]

OK, I found a way in. If I use the Search function for the threads want I the links that come up through that do work. The only bits that don't seem to work are the actual sub-forum pages, which refuse to load - the threads themselves seem to be fairly amenable to being opened once you can get to an indiviual link, by-passing the sub-forum pages. I'm in, so I can do what I need to, but it is hardly ideal. Hopefully you can find the answer soon - good luck!

[danielc]

Ok Gary, I have cookies enabled, but if I try to collapse or uncollapse a sub-forum the forum clears to a blank page (the list on the left stays though) and the spinner just spins. I left it spinning while I went on my bike ride with my son and it never loaded.

If I tell the page to Refresh I get dumped back at the home page not the forum page.

So if it was open it stays open and if it is closed I can't open it.

PS: Two other facts that might or might not matter:
1) I can still track or turn off tracking on a thread.
2) When I open a thread and then return to the forum page it snaps to the top rather than where I was when I opened the thread.

Also just to be fair, I have cleared all my cookies and re-logged on just to be sure. I have also tried this at home, work, and a friends computer and it acts the same regardless of computer or browser software.

[Ylissa]

FWIW - I have run into this on IE7 (7.0.5730.13); but swapping over to Firefox (23.0) on the same machine the spinny appears briefly and the page then loads. On both browsers, cookies are enabled.

[danielc]

I am on IE8 at work and home, and Chrome at my friends home.

[doctor_wu]

I suprsingly ran into this on Xombreero on lubuntu 13.04 i386. It happened after I went to suspend.

[Aubrey the Malformed]

This is still a problem on my home computer - I simply cannot open the sub-forums.

[motteditor]

I have it on my work computer (using IE8). No problem at home, where I'm using Firefox.

[danielc]

I would be glad to give up the spinny in order to get back the aqbility to open and close sub-boards, return to where I left, and to un-track threads. Watching a spinny does nothing for me at all. :-(

[Aubrey the Malformed]

Yes, I've tried Chrome and there is a little bit of lag and spinny but other than that it works fine. The problem seems to be with IE for me, although at work they use IE and there is little problem there either.