Quoted from chas10e:this happened to me today using a PC, Google Chrome,
clicked the green new posts in the "what Jersey Jack thread" & was taken to the "Alien Refund" thread ...just imagine my confusion
Still some remnants of the data corruption issue last week. Sorry about that!
Only a handful of threads were affected in the 5 minutes this issue was active. But that still means hundreds of people had one or more corrupted visit records.
I did some more querying and found 55 more "corrupted" thread visit records. I removed those records. I hope this is the last we've seen of it.
Sorry for the trouble!
Quoted from sbmania:I consistently have a problem where I click on a thread, read it, use the back arrow to go back to where I was browsing, but end up two or even three pages further down the list. I get so fed up, a lot of times, I just close pinside and go to rec.games out of frustration. I spend more time trying to find where I left off than reading threads.
This issue is kind of hard to replicate without more details. I'm assuming you are on the front page, maybe down on results page 2 or 3 and then click a topic, read it, come back to the front page (via the back button) and everything has shifted? This is due to the way browser caching works and the fact that other threads may have had updates in the time you were viewing a thread.
The easiest way to work around this is to open every thread you want to visit in a new window. That way, the main list of topics will remain unaffected. You can do this by either holding shift or control (shift or command on a Mac) while clicking a thread. This will respectively open a thread in a new window or a new tab.
Alternatively, for single hand control (i.e. when you are holding your coffee with your other hand), you can right click a thread and select something like "open link in new tab" or "open link in a new window".
Hope that helps!