New SDCentral quirk

Discussion boards not updating properly

Published on March 2, 2005 By Chris TH In Stardock Support General

Hopefully the title explains the basic point!

Using SDC to view discussion groups, after (say) marking all messages read after a while some threads update and they are duly highlighted, but the new (recent) comments are not visible. The updated 'replies' count may say eg 12, but the latest visible reply is eg #7 which is the last reply as-at when I first openend SDC->discussions.

Is anyone else seeing this? SDC is version 2.03c.318 build 80.

Comments

yrag

on Mar 03, 2005

Chris, hit the Beta switch in settings and install 2.04{b}.101 Build 81

Chris TH

on Mar 03, 2005

That's a thought. Never bothered with the betas much in the past...

Any major 'gotcha' with the beta? Ahhh, what the hell, let's just put it in the dish & see if the dog licks it up

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Koasati

on Mar 04, 2005

That's exactly why I stopped using SDC for the forums, since the new site came online. Haven't tried it recently........ maybe I should.

Chris TH

on Mar 04, 2005

Well, the 'dog' is happy with the beta so-far... Although it hosed SDMCP for some reason during the install.

That's exactly why I stopped using SDC for the forums

I find the mail/newsreader style of browsing the forums much more intuitive than the web interface. My home connection is 64kbps ISDN so continually hitting the link/back buttons in the browser (with the resultant delay while the pages reload) was a pain.

FWIW

Koasati

on Mar 04, 2005

...... 64kbpps....... that would be wonderful. *sigh*

Koasati

on Mar 04, 2005

no dice.. still not working............ grrrrrrrrr!

Chris TH

on Mar 04, 2005

Yeah, on further investigation, it's a bit temperamental.

Particularly if you leave SDC running in the BG for a while, I'm finding it then has difficulty just bringing up the articles - long delays, and not finding some replies. Although I guess it could be a site issue?

Although the updating seems to be working reasonable reliably for me.

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