Thread: Ghost Pages
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Old 11-17-2010, 01:15 PM   #6
chain777
 
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I was going to start a thread on this, but I'm glad I found this one.

I have this problem all the time, on multiple threads. It seems to get worse the longer the thread is. I've seen multiple ghost pages (4 or 5), on some threads. Even two or three page threads sometimes show ghost pages.

I don't have any experience with the software side of things, but this is the only site I can recall that I've ever seen this problem on. I'm also using Firefox.

One other point. The way placemarkers (or whatever term is used too describe the markers that remember your place in threads since you last visited), are implemented isn't very reliable, and the time they reset is to fast. I don't know the interval they reset, but I think it's less than half an hour. So if your idle for more time than that, you lose all your markers.

It's a lot more useful if they're thread related instead time related. Otherwise all the markers in every thread on the forum, even on sub-forums you haven't visited yet, are reset and you lose all your markers. The sites that only reset the markers you've actually visited, regardless of the last time you visited, are much more useful.

I hope this info is helpful.
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