john6767 Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 1 minute ago, Dyertribe said: Some advice on how to achieve that state of nirvana would be appreciated from any source. I have posted in both this and the other thread about what seems to be causing the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob-M Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 This is my custom stream settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john6767 Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 This is what I have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyertribe Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Thank you, all the contributors here, I think I have it sorted. It was the other forum members that gave me the information I needed.. Mank thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickent Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Every thread that comes up in vnc is vnc thread multiple, multiple times, forum is unusable on my mobile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 1 minute ago, Rickent said: Every thread that comes up in vnc is vnc thread multiple, multiple times, forum is unusable on my mobile. Don't worry, it is supposed to be like that.... Jeez.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiler Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 VNC, VNC, VNC That's mostly what I get now God, I hate changes I like sponge cake though??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickent Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Just now, Mike the Boilerman said: Don't worry, it is supposed to be like that.... Jeez.... But it's crap, wasn't like this earlier, rubbish and unusable, don't want to have to scroll through pages and pages only showing one thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 1 minute ago, Rickent said: But it's crap, wasn't like this earlier, rubbish and unusable, don't want to have to scroll through pages and pages only showing one thread. I wasn't 'Jeezing" at you, I was Jeezing at the admin assertion this is correct!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyertribe Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Just now, Rickent said: But it's crap, wasn't like this earlier, rubbish and unusable, don't want to have to scroll through pages and pages only showing one thread. Under “Clicking unread items” clicking on “take me to the first unread” and saving it as a custom stream did it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rickent Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Jeezing at me or not, the site is utter b*llocks at the moment. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Schweizer Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 (edited) Is this an improvement? Three pages of VNC posts with just a splattering of others. OK, no Political & Current Affairs threads, but the site is unusable now. Fortunately, after a lot of perseverance a few days ago, I was able to set my own VNC content to exclude P&CA posts, and will be sticking with that until the present situation resolves itself. Edited to Add :- I have just found MTB's thread on how to change VNC, and everything is now back to normal Thanks Mike. Edited February 9, 2020 by David Schweizer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 25 minutes ago, David Schweizer said: Is this an improvement? Three pages of VNC posts with just a splattering of others. OK, no Political & Current Affairs threads, but the site is unusable now. Fortunately, after a lot of perseverance a few days ago, I was able to set my own VNC content to exclude P&CA posts, and will be sticking with that until the present situation resolves itself. Edited to Add :- I have just found MTB's thread on how to change VNC, and everything is now back to normal Thanks Mike. As I say, there has been no change to the functionality you reference here. The only reason it has come to light here is because this is a very active topic with lots of replies, thus lots of entries on VNC. It would do the same for any other topic had it received lots of replies in short space of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac of Cygnet Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 50 minutes ago, RichM said: As I say, there has been no change to the functionality you reference here. The only reason it has come to light here is because this is a very active topic with lots of replies, thus lots of entries on VNC. It would do the same for any other topic had it received lots of replies in short space of time. So why has this duplication now disappeared in my VNC without me doing anything, even going back 15 hours and in topics I've not looked at? I've taken the precaution of newly bookmarking this once again acceptable version AND clearing out my browsing cache so it doesn't suddenly revert (I hope!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 For me the change has worked exactly as described: I haven't had to change anthing, Political threads have disappeared, and I am not seeing any duplicates. So it would seem to be more of an issue of individual settings rather than the forum being 'broken'. My setting are similar to those of Rob-M and john6767 above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 23 minutes ago, Mac of Cygnet said: So why has this duplication now disappeared in my VNC without me doing anything, even going back 15 hours and in topics I've not looked at? I've taken the precaution of newly bookmarking this once again acceptable version AND clearing out my browsing cache so it doesn't suddenly revert (I hope!). Most likely because its gone midnight and we don't have so many people replying to the same topics in quick succession within the past hour. (Not implying they shouldn't) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac of Cygnet Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 4 minutes ago, RichM said: Most likely because its gone midnight and we don't have so many people replying to the same topics in quick succession within the past hour. (Not implying they shouldn't) No, it's because somehow under 'Show Me', the setting had changed between 'Content items only' (no duplication) and 'Content Items, Comments and Reviews (topics duplicated as per all the complaints). I just tested this. However, even putting the 'Show Me' to 'Content Items Only' does not work permanently unless you clear out your browser cache so the unwanted setting is not reverted to. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Bob Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 8 hours ago, Mac of Cygnet said: No, it's because somehow under 'Show Me', the setting had changed between 'Content items only' (no duplication) and 'Content Items, Comments and Reviews (topics duplicated as per all the complaints). I just tested this. However, even putting the 'Show Me' to 'Content Items Only' does not work permanently unless you clear out your browser cache so the unwanted setting is not reverted to. Ah, sense at last. Duplicate thread posts now gone. . . . Now ,tell me again how do I see all Parahandy's daily fail posts? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete.i Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 Okay. that's better. Now leave it well alone and go boating or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 8 hours ago, Mac of Cygnet said: However, even putting the 'Show Me' to 'Content Items Only' does not work permanently unless you clear out your browser cache so the unwanted setting is not reverted to. OR, a quicker way is to find the tiny little grey "tick" symbol to the right of the "View New Content" title (on the top left of the white part of your page after modifying and saving your VNC), and click on it. Clicking it toggles it between grey and green. Make it go green. This makes your newly saved VNC your default, otherwise it reverts to the old VNC. Doing this saves all the mucking about with the cache/cookies etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyertribe Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 9 hours ago, RichM said: Most likely because its gone midnight and we don't have so many people replying to the same topics in quick succession within the past hour. (Not implying they shouldn't) I don't think you have grasped the problem we were experiencing even now Many thanks to the lay members of the forum for explaining the right button to click Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 14 minutes ago, Dyertribe said: I don't think you have grasped the problem we were experiencing even now As Rich rarely actually uses the forum to engage in real-time back-and-forth discussion, I think you're right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac of Cygnet Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 37 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said: OR, a quicker way is to find the tiny little grey "tick" symbol to the right of the "View New Content" title (on the top left of the white part of your page after modifying and saving your VNC), and click on it. Clicking it toggles it between grey and green. Make it go green. This makes your newly saved VNC your default, otherwise it reverts to the old VNC. Doing this saves all the mucking about with the cache/cookies etc. I don't think what you describe (making the modified VNC the default) will necessarily be permanent unless you clear out cached pages. Browsers are usually set to look for cached pages to make for faster loading. It didn't work for me permanently unless I immediately cleared out my browser cache (not cookies or history) after ticking the 'make default' button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Mac of Cygnet said: I don't think what you describe (making the modified VNC the default) will necessarily be permanent unless you clear out cached pages. Yes it is permanent, that is the whole point of the ticking the tick, to make it permanent. Or it is permanent for me anyway, without clearing my cached pages. Edited February 10, 2020 by Mike the Boilerman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john6767 Posted February 10, 2020 Report Share Posted February 10, 2020 This morning it seems that the default VNC stream has been changed to be just "Items only", so you should not see any duplication even if you don't use a custom stream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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