the old grind
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Two things on my mind regarding site use/access:
1) Often times I want to subscribe to a post that has already included what I would have suggested, or just to see how a situation played out without bulking it up with attaboys.
Here's what I discovered by accident: I posted, then completely deleted a response using 'edit'. I got notifications of further responses to the thread (btw, I had guessed right but retracted, .. and batt cables had been reversed unbeknownst to the OP)
2) Since then, I've also discovered that Windows' 'disk cleanup' is where some cached or offline file* is deleted and lacking it TBN's servers lose track of one's subscriptions and/or on revisiting a thread they're led to the first post vs picking up just after the last entry they visited.
(*info/file, NOT a cookie, and stored by user vs on a site's servers)
Perhaps one of our tech guys (Aaron?) could explain which file(s) to retain during MS's 'cleanup' so we can tidy-up our own systems without losing our place(s). (I lose my stuff from PM's site* simultaneously this way, so it's surely from the 'user act' vs a perceivable site issue.)
(*also VB-based)
I suspect others have discovered the latter of these tidbits and wondered how or why. Can we make lemonade out of this? tog
1) Often times I want to subscribe to a post that has already included what I would have suggested, or just to see how a situation played out without bulking it up with attaboys.
Here's what I discovered by accident: I posted, then completely deleted a response using 'edit'. I got notifications of further responses to the thread (btw, I had guessed right but retracted, .. and batt cables had been reversed unbeknownst to the OP)
2) Since then, I've also discovered that Windows' 'disk cleanup' is where some cached or offline file* is deleted and lacking it TBN's servers lose track of one's subscriptions and/or on revisiting a thread they're led to the first post vs picking up just after the last entry they visited.
(*info/file, NOT a cookie, and stored by user vs on a site's servers)
Perhaps one of our tech guys (Aaron?) could explain which file(s) to retain during MS's 'cleanup' so we can tidy-up our own systems without losing our place(s). (I lose my stuff from PM's site* simultaneously this way, so it's surely from the 'user act' vs a perceivable site issue.)
(*also VB-based)
I suspect others have discovered the latter of these tidbits and wondered how or why. Can we make lemonade out of this? tog