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Mark All As Read. Not Working?

Mar 25, 2014 1:27PM PDT

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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Mar 29, 2014 8:40AM PDT
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Didn't work for me.
Mar 29, 2014 8:49AM PDT

Using an Android tablet.

Dafydd.

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Maybe he's
Mar 29, 2014 8:54AM PDT

NSA lol

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Or their great friends GCHQ.
Mar 29, 2014 9:02AM PDT

Dafydd.

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I think this was probably his first post
Mar 29, 2014 10:08AM PDT

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.

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I just get kicked back to that thread
Mar 29, 2014 10:01AM PDT

A name with two underscores and 21 characters, but all very current, done today.

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Well, something about profiles isn't working
Mar 29, 2014 12:59AM PDT

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! Happy

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Hmm,
Mar 29, 2014 1:09AM PDT

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

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That last test was with IE
Mar 29, 2014 1:17AM PDT

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.

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Well, I spoke too soon
Mar 29, 2014 1:28AM PDT

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.

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Partial success with IE
Mar 29, 2014 2:12AM PDT

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.

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Here's what it looks like
Mar 29, 2014 2:26AM PDT
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P.S
Mar 29, 2014 2:33AM PDT

I logged in with IE too and have never used it , well Windows Update uses it but I haven't .

Digger

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I see that red bar with FF and the dropdown within it
Mar 29, 2014 3:34AM PDT

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.

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Hey Steve
Mar 29, 2014 3:50AM PDT

I'm the neighborhood newbie Silly 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

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It gets even more strange
Mar 29, 2014 4:30AM PDT

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. Happy

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More time wasted
Mar 29, 2014 4:42AM PDT

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.

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Adblock Plus
Mar 29, 2014 4:46AM PDT

works fine here, make sure to un check Allow some Pop Ups

Digger

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That's why It seems
Mar 29, 2014 4:51AM PDT

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 Grin

Digger

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to digger
Mar 29, 2014 4:59AM PDT

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.

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To James
Mar 29, 2014 5:03AM PDT

You're not talking me into changing my name lol Laugh

Digger

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I've been following
Mar 29, 2014 4:44AM PDT
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Looks like someone fixed the forums start page
Apr 5, 2014 8:50PM PDT

for IE. I now have the same view as with FF in all my user accounts...not that I needed it.

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To James
Mar 29, 2014 5:26AM PDT

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

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change an email address on one
Mar 29, 2014 3:47AM PDT

then watch the fun begin.

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Change the email on my login ?
Mar 29, 2014 3:53AM PDT

is that what you mean ? Edit my e-mail for login?

Digger

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In the profile clk on the Settings and then
Mar 29, 2014 3:59AM PDT

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.

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I did it with another itsdigger account
Mar 29, 2014 4:10AM PDT

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. Cool

So later I'll chang it back but don't want to push it right away Shocked

Digger

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I did it on
Mar 29, 2014 4:16AM PDT

the Win 8.1 machine with FF v28.0 if that matters

Digger

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On my verizon email
Mar 29, 2014 4:18AM PDT

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?