Whaddaya mean, "no new comments"?

December 15, 2007 7:13 AM

Yesterday when I visited MeFi for the first time, I got "no links and no comments posted since your last visit." I figured it was some momentary glitch. But the same thing happened today, so I'm wondering if anybody else has this problem. When I go to MetaTalk and AskMe, it has the correct number of new posts/comments. (Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP.)
posted by languagehat to Bugs at 7:13 AM (27 comments total)

Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP as well but no problem here.
posted by ersatz at 7:25 AM on December 15, 2007

That's what happens when you obsessively load and reload the site, isn't it?

Short of that, delete your cookies.
posted by Dave Faris at 7:37 AM on December 15, 2007

THEY'RE COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR COMPUTER!
posted by dersins at 7:40 AM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

Meanwhile, when I refresh AskMe, it's still telling me that threads I've already read are still new. Is this how it always is, and I just haven't noticed? (IE 60.0.2900somethingsomething, Windows 2000.)
posted by lizzicide at 7:45 AM on December 15, 2007

We've changed it to only tally links and comments that meet your high standards, is all.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:51 AM on December 15, 2007 [7 favorites]

Every time I look at AskMe there's about 80 new questions. It's restricting me male answer syndrome and I demand redress!
Sorry I have nothing useful to add to resolving your problem lh, other than another data point of someone it's not happening to (same FF on Ubuntu 7.10)
posted by Abiezer at 8:51 AM on December 15, 2007

Meanwhile, when I refresh AskMe, it's still telling me that threads I've already read are still new. Is this how it always is, and I just haven't noticed?

There's a delay on the (new) system; we've talked about fixing it to really be realtime, but the current fuzzy solution (it works great if you visit only occasionally) is a lot less taxing than most of the alternative ideas we've seen, I think.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:52 AM on December 15, 2007

Mmmm, fuzzy things.
posted by lizzicide at 9:00 AM on December 15, 2007

We've changed it to only tally links and comments that meet your high standards, is all.

No languagehat seems to be onto something. If I open Metafilter (automatically logging on with the cookie stored on my machine) I get "2 links and 65 comments posted since your last visit." (I have no standards at all so every new link counts with me.)

OK. So I close my browser (IE version whatever is the latest) and then immediately re-open it it should say "0 links and 0 comments posted" or at least (likely) some other number than "2 links and 65 comments" which is what the page returns.

Refreshing seems to work, and if I wait a bit before re-opening the page, it seems OK.

I assume closing the browser and re-opening it (and logging on with my cookie) registers with Matt's server as a new visit?
posted by three blind mice at 9:03 AM on December 15, 2007

On preview, cortex explains it.
posted by three blind mice at 9:04 AM on December 15, 2007

Last I checked, that "x links and comments" doesn't actually mean anything, and is just there for show.
posted by Afroblanco at 9:30 AM on December 15, 2007 [2 favorites]

We've changed it to only tally links and comments that meet your high standards, is all.

Well, that's a relief! I've only been asking for that pony for five years.
posted by languagehat at 10:13 AM on December 15, 2007

I know how you feel. The first time I visited MeFi seems like yesterday to me, too.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:14 AM on December 15, 2007

Yesterday when I visited MeFi for the first time

Newb.
posted by srboisvert at 10:54 AM on December 15, 2007

It's spelled "noob," noob.
posted by Dave Faris at 10:56 AM on December 15, 2007

She turned me into a newb!
posted by yhbc at 11:18 AM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

i thought it was n00b.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 11:20 AM on December 15, 2007

Newbie, newb, noob, n00b - the variety of spellings reflects the marvelous diversity of the MetaFilter community. Or the inability to agree on anything.
posted by Cranberry at 12:00 PM on December 15, 2007

in this brave new era it's nüb

more metal
posted by Kattullus at 12:02 PM on December 15, 2007

I'm assuming, yhbc, that you get better?
posted by langeNU at 2:07 PM on December 15, 2007

Yes. He has to admit it. He's getting better all the time.

He couldn't get no worse.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:13 PM on December 15, 2007

nübermensch
posted by Ryvar at 2:20 PM on December 15, 2007

What, for I should call it n00b, nu?
posted by Falconetti at 8:30 PM on December 15, 2007

牛逼
posted by msittig at 10:05 AM on December 16, 2007

For anyone who's having trouble reading that, replace it by 牛B. Hope that helps.
posted by languagehat at 10:49 AM on December 16, 2007

n(oYo)bies!
posted by flabdablet at 9:37 PM on December 16, 2007

Milksop euphemists! 牛屄 or don't even go there.
posted by Abiezer at 1:53 AM on December 17, 2007