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.

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.