New info in member box?

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

Just noticed, in the corner of my bloodshot eyeballs, that the posting-member box to the left of the post now shows if the member is 'online', and if the post is 'unread', plus some new icons.

Is this new? Travis made changes? Anything else new?

Seems like a handy new feature...

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

Huh??? Now it went away. Whut happened?

 

[ANLAF]

I'll have a pint of what you've been drinking, TwoMany.

Anlaf

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

But, but, it was there! I know it was! I want it back!

What I'm drinking doesn't come in pints, but I'll whittle off a bit for ya...

 

[peanut]

Huh??? Now it went away. Whut happened?

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now look what you've done !

 

[Travis]

Nothing has changed. And I still see the online/offline icon. You should too.

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

I'm on a tablet, using full desktop interface. Never saw this 'online/offline' thing before until that incident. Gonna experiment a bit...

 

[gggGary]

The icons are always there for me..... What browser are you using?

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

This is an AT&T Samsung 8.9" tablet, running Android, Google's browser. It's wi-fi'd to my smartphone, which is hanging by a window facing a remote (18 miles away) cell tower. It uses a highly sophisticated Lipan Apache smoke signal encoding scheme to produce up to 50 network crashes per hour, and the datastream throughput far exceedes the previous tincan/string technology by at least 7%.

Since this advanced configuration is now 5 month old, it's probably now obsolete and needs upgrading. My neighbor has been boasting about his new "Bongo-drum" system, and I may try that route, after I figure out what to feed the drum bongers...

BTW, the appropriate response to this post is: "Well, no wonder!"

 

[gggGary]

Well, no wonder.

Place a pizza pan, carefully beaten into a perfect paraboloid directly behind the smartphone, this will focus the emanations from the outside world directly into your antenna, all your current problems will fade into insignificance.

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

Gotcha. Pizza pan, perfect paranoiance, foc us eminanations, fading insignificance.

 

[ANLAF]

Alternatively, a pot of tea usually sorts out these kinds of mysteries.

Anlaf

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

Ok , d i p p e d i t in a pot of te a , l oo ks b et t er ...

 

[ANLAF]

Oh! yes, I knew it would work.

Try a slice of cake with it, and who knows what might happen - I've just had a slab of parkin, delicious.

Anlaf

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

Okay, now I'm using a PC. The aforementioned online/offline and read/unread markers still don't exist. But, now I see thread descriptors as I move the mouse pointer over thread titles.

Wonder if this has anything to do with "instant messaging" or "HTML code" being off?

Still experimenting...

 

[TwoManyXS1Bs]

Whacking away at this on the PC, over 4 hours, that new info never reappeared.

 

[peanut]

well if you will live in the middle of nowhere what do you expect ?........

Are you using Chrome ? do you have any add ons like 'Adblock' ? might be worth re installing your browser with default settings