See if you can click on Stratford name and see his profile
Digger
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I tried the "Mark all as Read" on Linux and Win95/98 forums and didn't see any change, even refreshed them several times.
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after he'd just signed in for the first time. In the old forums when this would happen, the user name showing in a post was "anonymous". Later on, the real name appeared. Perhaps tomorrow it'll show. I did not in another thread that my profile showed an early March date for my last login. That date didn't change until logged in from a browser I'd never used and had to login manually. After that, the login date changed to today. Stuff happens.
A name with two underscores and 21 characters, but all very current, done today.
If I check under my name, it says I last logged in on March 2nd even though I have activity up until the 27th. I have my info saved so I don't manually login each time. Maybe that's the reason?...it's only updated when one enter their username/PW manually? I also noticed than when switching to another profile on my PC where Cnet isn't bookmarked or I don't have login info saved, there's not even an option to login manually. I can force it by trying to post as I get the usual signup or "already a member?" message but plugging in my username/PW doesn't acknowledge me with a welcome message. My name doesn't appear as being logged and all the messages just have the gray triangles by them. Must be a browser setting problem but I've not seen this before the new changes. In any event, something is different with user logins and profiles. Not being able to login, however, doesn't prevent the ads from popping up! ![]()
As a test, I cleared all my cookies and history on both Windows computers and even rebooted the computers and logged in as usual with no problems. I don't get it.
Digger
and I rarely use it other than when experiencing a problem with FF not rendering something properly. I was also using the Guest account which does act oddly at times so I won't write this as a possible forum bug. Any account on my PC that worked with autologin before, still does. It was just with this Guest account and IE that I found no login prompt. Perhaps it was there but hidden somewhere. I'll need to go back and mouse over the entire landscape looking for easter eggs.
I just tried IE in an admin level account and got the same result. The red Cnet bar was empty except for the search options. There was no login button to be found. I tried to post and got the sign-up screen with the login option there. I entered my credentials but wasn't acknowledged as logged in. I'll need to play with this and gather more symptom data before entering a new feedback post.
The Cnet red M&M is active and will bring up the main starting page where I can log in. I've bookmarked the forums page and go straight to there. I'll try and see if this post goes. I still don't get any dropdowns on the red Cnet bar on top nor do I see my name. I'm now finding this to be the case using IE with any account on my PC so it's not isolated to the guest account.
I logged in with IE too and have never used it , well Windows Update uses it but I haven't .
Digger
just as you show. I don't see anything but the Cnet M&M and the search option when using IE. I don't have a member account with a photo sharing site so can't do a capture and post it. I think the totally free without joining sites have disappeared.
I'm the neighborhood newbie
but it seems to me that if the site works across the board on three of my comps with Win7 , 8.1 and 4 Linux distro's , FF and IE there's gotta be some setting on your end that has changed.
Like I told James though , I sync all FF with my Win 7 laptop so all are exactly the same I dunno if that means anything and IE works fine with no syncing.
Digger
My personal home built rig is still running IE9 and I can't update unless I replace my Radeon 4000 HD series video card due to issues with a required Win 7 companion update to IE so I'm running an older version. That might be part of it but I just fired up an old Lenovo T61 with XP to test it. Cnet runs fine in FF on the laptop but, with IE8 on that one, I get 2 red bars for Cnet. Only one has the M&M but the rest of the page is blank. No forum listings at all. It's no just my rig if FF works fine in both and IE in neither. I've got a Linux HD for the Lenovo. If I feel like wasting any more time today, I'll try it. I believe I've got 4 or more distros on the drive but all will need updates. Life is too short to spend it that way...always being out of date...just like my entire wardrobe. ![]()
I popped in my HD w/Linux on it, selected your favorite (I think) SolydK and the Cnet login worked just fine. The site seems to render normally but I'm going to need to find some ad blocker for this thing because the animated ads are chewing up my bandwith and turning this old dog of a laptop into one that can hardly move at all.
like some setting on your end. I can't make anything bad happen . Even changed my e-mail and stuff with no problems.
You Guy's are just messin' with the newbie aren't ya's
Digger
You don't have a profile name using a space in it like Steve and I do. You can't even get a profile name with a space in it anymore. I think that might be the defining difference in why we've had problems and you didn't.
a conversation over in the PCLinux forums about the new Maxthon Browser for Linux but it's cross platformed for Windows and Mac too. They seem to like it and pretty fast too . Check it out here => http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,125315.0.html . I'ts Chrome based .
Digger
for IE. I now have the same view as with FF in all my user accounts...not that I needed it.
I did try to create a new account with 2 names with a space and couldn't so you are correct there but, Steve's problems were different than yours.
Digger
find your current email for the account and clk on Edit and change to another email account you don't yet have registered with CNET. You then have to go to that email account and clk on the FIRST confirm for acknowledging it's your email acct. You then get a SECOND email later with the CONFIRM link on it. If you are lucky the confirm goes through, if not, then you get delivered to Hal's 404 "sorry dave" page.
the first confirmation said "Sorry Dave" 404 something something but had a second confirmation sent and in bold letters it said Confirm Changes or something like that and it worked , here I am.
So later I'll chang it back but don't want to push it right away
Digger
I got the first one, but never the second one, and only got the first one that one time and it always sent to the 404 page. I had no clue I needed a second one till I did the password change option, which got me able not to post but to change settings in the profile and changed to a different email. That email account then got the same one I'd seen, it went to the 404 page and later I noticed a second one for Confirm, so gave it a try and that one worked.
Two different ones to confirm? Only one works?