OT: an lj question

[doll-revolution.livejournal.com]

i apologize for this non-story use of ds_flash but. . .


i have been having some problems accessing this lj. sometimes when i access it, it brings up, as the last post, a story which i know is not the last post (because i've read later posts) or sometimes it will list the wong number of notes for a story (say '6' when previously it had '10')

if i hit 'refresh' on my browser, it will sometimes fix it, but sometimes not. this has happened on both my home and work computers.

is anyone else having this problem, or am i some kind of mechanical jinx?


thanks!

Comments

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

The only thing that's unfamiliar to me about your question is your saying that hitting 'refresh' doesn't take care of the problem all the time, because yes...I get the same thing, particularly if I click on the ds_flashfiction link from, say, my user info page after already having clicked on the link from that page earlier in the session.

Mind you, you might *also* be a technological jinx (*g*), but this seems to be a bug in the lj system that many people experience.

[doll-revolution.livejournal.com]

see, it's like this:

i'll go to DS-F, for the first time in the day, look at my story, be sad that there's only 1 comment :(, and hit 'refresh', just in case. and voila! suddenly there are two extra stories on the lj.

hmmm. so i read them, go away, and come back later in the day (via a new browser window even!) and sometimes those stories are there, sometimes they're not. sometimes refresh brings them back, sometimes not.

that happened yesterday A LOT with the story that's right after my 'ouch' and i kept losing the 'priscilla' story too.

sigh. it's just weird.

Yes. Yes. Me too.

[stormheller.livejournal.com]

As near as I can figure out, it's returning to the place it was when I first opened the lj that morning. No matter how many times I hit re-fresh, it returns to the same place it was originally, each time I go back to the journal. (If you're like me, you check your lj friends list 30 times a work day. [g]) I found if I reboot my computer completely (not just close out of Explorer) it opens to the current place, and then returns to that place until I re-boot.
Strangely, a) it only happens at work, and b) I found one time that clicking on the "friends" tab on the frame set a new place as the one it kept returning to. Haven't checked it out again, though.
Since I'm on day one-and-a-half of my two-day "HTML for beginners" course, I say with great self-importance... it's probably a cache issue.
Solution: hit refresh a lot.
Hope that in some alternate universe somewhere, this is actually worthwhile information. [g]
~ S.

Re: Yes. Yes. Me too.

[doll-revolution.livejournal.com]

grrr. it's just so annoying!!!

but i will just keep hitting 'refresh'. thanks for all the help/info.

Cache, cache, and more cache

[katyabaturinsky.livejournal.com]

It does sound like a cache issue. Hitting refresh on your browser doesn't always work (as you've seen); try manually clearing the cache on your computer and opening a new browser session. (Also, shift+refresh forces the computer -- if it's a PC, anyway -- to go to the web, not to the cache. Most of the time. When things are working.) There's also a server cache at play, and that might be contributing to the problem as well; if you've tried clearing the cache on your computer and you're still having that issue, it could be the LJ servers at issue (poor overworked things that they are). There's not much you can do about that, of course, but perhaps others will have additional suggestions.