@pakalanapikake can you send/post a screenshot of the missing comment count? :O I still see your (impressive) comment count when I visit your profile. 🙁
I’ve been clicking on the usual notifications, which frequently (but not always) dump me in the midst of a comment thread, often nowhere near one of my own posts, so I cannot tell which comment the notification is pointing to. It makes it difficult to respond.
We discussed this issue within the last year or so. I think you said that it was some kind of timing issue. It had been pretty okay since then, with occasional incompleted pointers. My sense is that it has become noticeably more frequent lately. Mr. P. pointed out that a lot of HTML may have to load when the system brings up the page in the browser. I only have 4 gigs of RAM, and with a bunch of tabs open, that may force the CPU to swap to disk, slowing down the the page loading so it times out before the pointer gets to its target. (At least that’s what I think he said.) This may not be a DB issue at all. Maybe I just need to have fewer tabs open when I’m posting and reading replies. 😉
Ah ha. If I hover on a notification before clicking it, I can see my permalink number that it references, so that’s one way to see where it is supposed to point. I wonder if the URLs are getting too long because of my long username?
In other news, I looked at my notification settings, and was mystified to see that EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS were set to DAILY. I’m surprised, because I’m almost positive that I hadn’t set it to that. I rarely check my email, and only use the web notifications, which I have assumed are displayed when I log in to DB.
Has there been a recent change to DB’s notification system / software, perhaps with a different default than previously? Just wondering — as a reality check. 😉
I use FireFox on Win7, and for the heck of it, logged in on Mr. P’s Win7 box via Chrome and FF — both of which displayed my stats. So then I followed @lordcobol‘s clue about ad blockers. I whitelisted DB, and voila! The stats appear again, and I’m glad to be able to allow ads but block the doggone trackers that I detest.
Thanks for your help, Chingus! I bring these technical issues up only because other Beanies may be having similar challenges — or I might be the canary in the coalmine, and want to alert you to changes in system performance before it gets out of hand. You guys are zzang!
FWIW, I can make her comment count, post count, etc, appear or disappear by toggling ad-blocker filters.
Others have noted in the past that ad-blockers can make things like the “Follow” button disappear. I have in fact found that with more than one ad-blocker program, BUT, within my current blocker, all is well with the default filter list and most of the optional ones, but the filters that talk about “social media buttons” or “social media and related widgets” will disrupt DB’s display.
mary
March 27, 2019 at 7:23 PM
@pakalanapikake can you send/post a screenshot of the missing comment count? :O I still see your (impressive) comment count when I visit your profile. 🙁
mary
March 27, 2019 at 7:25 PM
About the weird notifications, can you describe it more? Or send me a sample notification link you’re getting? Thank you~
PakalanaPikake
March 27, 2019 at 11:07 PM
@mary, @lordcobol,
I’ve been clicking on the usual notifications, which frequently (but not always) dump me in the midst of a comment thread, often nowhere near one of my own posts, so I cannot tell which comment the notification is pointing to. It makes it difficult to respond.
We discussed this issue within the last year or so. I think you said that it was some kind of timing issue. It had been pretty okay since then, with occasional incompleted pointers. My sense is that it has become noticeably more frequent lately. Mr. P. pointed out that a lot of HTML may have to load when the system brings up the page in the browser. I only have 4 gigs of RAM, and with a bunch of tabs open, that may force the CPU to swap to disk, slowing down the the page loading so it times out before the pointer gets to its target. (At least that’s what I think he said.) This may not be a DB issue at all. Maybe I just need to have fewer tabs open when I’m posting and reading replies. 😉
Ah ha. If I hover on a notification before clicking it, I can see my permalink number that it references, so that’s one way to see where it is supposed to point. I wonder if the URLs are getting too long because of my long username?
In other news, I looked at my notification settings, and was mystified to see that EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS were set to DAILY. I’m surprised, because I’m almost positive that I hadn’t set it to that. I rarely check my email, and only use the web notifications, which I have assumed are displayed when I log in to DB.
Has there been a recent change to DB’s notification system / software, perhaps with a different default than previously? Just wondering — as a reality check. 😉
I use FireFox on Win7, and for the heck of it, logged in on Mr. P’s Win7 box via Chrome and FF — both of which displayed my stats. So then I followed @lordcobol‘s clue about ad blockers. I whitelisted DB, and voila! The stats appear again, and I’m glad to be able to allow ads but block the doggone trackers that I detest.
Thanks for your help, Chingus! I bring these technical issues up only because other Beanies may be having similar challenges — or I might be the canary in the coalmine, and want to alert you to changes in system performance before it gets out of hand. You guys are zzang!
Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
March 27, 2019 at 7:44 PM
FWIW, I can make her comment count, post count, etc, appear or disappear by toggling ad-blocker filters.
Others have noted in the past that ad-blockers can make things like the “Follow” button disappear. I have in fact found that with more than one ad-blocker program, BUT, within my current blocker, all is well with the default filter list and most of the optional ones, but the filters that talk about “social media buttons” or “social media and related widgets” will disrupt DB’s display.
mary
March 27, 2019 at 7:58 PM
I see… thanks for sharing that.