vB6 quirk?

[Wayne]

In version 6.0.8, has anyone encountered issues logging into forums with custom templates? When I attempt to log in, nothing seems to happen—it still shows me as logged out. However, refreshing the page usually resolves it.

It's a very minor inconvenience, but I'm curious if anyone else has experienced something similar.

[Shawn Gossman]

Hmmm.

I've not encountered this one yet.

Has that happened here and on OTF?

[Wayne]

It happens on OTF and one of my professional forums. Not a one-off, but consistent on both.

[Shawn Gossman]

It happens on OTF and one of my professional forums. Not a one-off, but consistent on both.

I ask because I wonder if the themes need to be updated for 6.0.8.

I don't think my themes have been updated for it.

My XenForo themes usually get an update after a new version of XF has been released. I didn't know if that's a routine thing with vB as well?

[Wayne]

I bet that's it. I'm not sure how often creators release updates for themes.

[Shawn Gossman]

I'll have to ask mine in a support thread or something and see if they need to update.

I paid for this theme and the one on OTF so I'd hope they'd keep them updated with the versioning.

[Cheeto]

In version 6.0.8, has anyone encountered issues logging into forums with custom templates? When I attempt to log in, nothing seems to happen—it still shows me as logged out. However, refreshing the page usually resolves it.

I've seen similar after upgrades and style updates, refreshing your browser with a Shift-F5 so it will reload without using cached data a few times usually clears it up for me. I've had regular users who have logged in just after an update comment after similar experiences but it usually fixes itself within a short time.

[Shawn Gossman]

I've seen similar after upgrades and style updates, refreshing your browser with a Shift-F5 so it will reload without using cached data a few times usually clears it up for me. I've had regular users who have logged in just after an update comment after similar experiences but it usually fixes itself within a short time.

Thanks for the tips my friend!

[Gaz]

This appears to be a bit of a quirk on my site, it's not properly identifying new posts. I assume it's a setting that needs to be adjusted. The last post displayed isn't actually the last post in fact it seems to get stuck until the next day. For example it displays the last post made at 3pm when in fact there are 30 to 100 more posts

I've only had one proper issue so far, in that with the new posts function (which works for the most part), ill often have threads show up as read but there are new posts on them (which it recognises) but the only option i have to view the thread is from the start or by clicking on last post which will take me to the same spot every time (for example in this week's gameday thread it always takes me to page 3 despite there being 15 pages).

It seems to mostly happen on the big threads, like every gameday thread, which is annoying because they are the biggest and hardest to sift through.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Wayne]

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I've observed the same issue occurring on other forums that utilize third-party themes. For instance, when you check the Latest Activity section, it often displays posts from weeks ago, rather than showing anything recent. I suspect this might be related to the theme needing an update to remain compatible with the latest version of vBulletin. Interestingly, I haven't seen this problem on either my cloud-based forum or the self-hosted one, as both are running the default vBulletin theme.

Are you using a third-party theme by any chance?

[Gaz]

I've observed the same issue occurring on other forums that utilize third-party themes. For instance, when you check the Latest Activity section, it often displays posts from weeks ago, rather than showing anything recent. I suspect this might be related to the theme needing an update to remain compatible with the latest version of vBulletin. Interestingly, I haven't seen this problem on either my cloud-based forum or the self-hosted one, as both are running the default vBulletin theme.

Are you using a third-party theme by any chance?

I've got a Unread Button that displays where channels have new content. This was added from https://vbmods.rocks/
Other than that it's was a vanilla upgrade.
It seems more evident that when a thread/topic gets big then it becomes a challenge.

I've closed down the comments feature as well which I think was giving the appearance of new content but not as easy to locate.