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David Stone wrote: The first way is less reliable (in terms of accurate content), because you must be using CPhog for each post to get it to work and we'd be storing that information in global storage, so it would be machine-specific rather than portable to every machine.
First off, everyone should be using CPhog. All the time. So that's a non-issue. 
The machine-specific thing is a bit of a problem; however, there are already a number of inconveniences when moving between machines / profiles, and this is hardly the worst of them.
Given that the whole intent of the feature seems to be a convenience thing (at-a-glance updates of the current post count in a thread), it's not exactly the end of the world if a thread goes missing.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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I just noticed you can subscribe to an individual thread for the forum watch. Why not default subscribe to threads where you post and only retain the last 5? Just use a push-pop. Is it that easy?
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my affinity, in this life or the next. - Gladiator. (Okay, not quite Gladiator but close.)
I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? - Lord Byron
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David Stone wrote: Last modified: 10mins after originally posted -- And the latest comments page still doesn't have this post in it...
Heh.
This forum is "hidden" - posts here never show up in Latest Comments...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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Ooohhhhhh...right. 
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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So uh... Firefox updated and now I'm seeing this every time I try to reply and my entire computer dry-heaves all over. I'm posting this from IE which has me seriously chapped at the moment.
cphog.jpg (53.1 Kb)
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Odd... Try Ctrl+F5, see if that helps.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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You know that's odd that it worked because that's the 2nd time I tried it. Why on the 2nd time did it work...
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Dual Quad-Core. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my affinity, in this life or the next. - Gladiator. (Okay, not quite Gladiator but close.)
I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
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Because Shog quickly submitted a bug fix between your first and second try? 
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They don't really want you to play "Freebird". They're just heckling you!
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Not this time...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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Now when I'm typing in CPhog it makes my browser refresh about every 3 seconds. That's kind of annoying.
http://www.codefrog.com/firefox/firefox.html[^]
Just keep watching the status bar. You see the blue shoot across but it's actually started long before you see the blue so you can type about 3 words (it refreshes) and then 3 more words (it refreshes) -> GoTo->LOOPHERE.
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It's probably loading the sidebar items (whatever forums you've marked to watch). I usually don't notice this, but your comment reminds me - we should really cache these.
Adding it to The List...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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mmmm, well ... guess I'll try to figure out how to unwatch them...
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Negative. I have no more watches and she still is updating... I'll try to restart FF and see if it goes after that.
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Can you fire up Wireshark or something and watch what it's trying to hit? Could be one of the admentor scripts or something.
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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ForumWatch runs once at the beginning of the page unless you specifically click the button. Shouldn't be that...
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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David Stone wrote: ForumWatch runs once at the beginning of the page unless you specifically click the button. Shouldn't be that...
It does cause momentary flickers in the status area when the request returns. Though i gotta say, i can barely see them even when i'm watching for 'em, but that's all i can think of. Well, that and the request(s) to pull the rest of a partial thread. They're probably all running back-to-back (assuming Rex hasn't changed the "max two requests per server" setting), so with several forumwatch boxes and a long thread, it could conceivably flash several times.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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If someone's got that many forumwatches that it's actually causing a slowdown, that's kinda sad.  I use two. One for the Insiders forum. One for here.
But yeah...I guess if you're loading that partial thread along with more than a couple forumwatch boxes, it'd queue up the requests for a bit. But it looked like Rex's Firefox was going crazy. And his screencast was almost 30 seconds long. And it didn't look like he'd just loaded that page.
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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I *had* exactly 1 forum watch. It's gone now. I restarted FF and the problem persists. But it's got to be something unique to me as I don't think it's affecting anyone else. My guess is that it's a roboform update that mast have done it which sucks.
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Yeah. CPhog hasn't changed since...the 20th[^]. So if it just started today, then it's likely something that changed on your end.
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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You nailed it. I set fasterfox back to default firefox settings and now the problem is gone. Which is really weird... So it was the max connections I guess...
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Dual Quad-Core. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my affinity, in this life or the next. - Gladiator. (Okay, not quite Gladiator but close.)
I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
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You know, Rex, you seem to have more issues with CPhog than anybody else.
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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Well not really. Who can truly complain? There's IE 7 ( just now arrived at where FF was in 2002 ) and there's FireFox beloved by the masses and soon to be christened as St. Firefox. Well... Guess I'll get on with it now.
One of my gripes is that when you post a new message or reply you get just enough feedback to know that if there aren't little "..."'s appearing somewhere your message isn't posting and probably won't. If you do see the little "..."'s appear odds are good it will post most times (998 out of 1000).
I think it would be useful if there was a bit more information (if possible). Like, "Establishing Connection..." -> "Connection Established..." -> "Sending Message..." -> "Message Received..." -> "Message Posted..." -> "Process Completed..."
Obviously I'm just guessing about most of that you may not have any way to get that granular on the process but if there was a way to know that things were happening and not just hanging that would be *so* nice.
Am I making sense or is the Advil I took having an adverse reaction with the Pumpkin Pie I just ate?
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code-frog wrote: I think it would be useful if there was a bit more information (if possible). Like, "Establishing Connection..." -> "Connection Established..." -> "Sending Message..." -> "Message Received..." -> "Message Posted..." -> "Process Completed..."
Me too. As you surmised, the "little dots" indicate something good - that CP has received the request. However, there's still a good chance (well, this past week anyway) that CP will choke and throw back a server error instead of actually posting the message. 'Till i get a response from the server, there's just no way of knowing.
However, i could automatically retry upon server errors...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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I figured the dots were all you could really do because being the type of developer you are you seem to promote valuable feedback if you can from within CPhog when you can.
The connections to CP over the last week have sucked. You don't have to retry. I've noticed that sometimes if I retry to quickly it doesn't matter. Usually If I let it sit and come back in a minute or so it will post straight away. As I recall Chris confessed to have some type of round robin approach to which servers you got. Apparently everyone gets the garbage and if you just wait your next cycle will put you on a better server.
How about you just have CPhog play that super obnoxious sound-byte of that one soccer announcer screaming, "GOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!" if a message posts. (I hate that sound byte more than any other sound byte in the world and if you've never heard it... Don't go looking for it. It's not worth the effort. Being a soccer player I always hated that guy.) 
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