The forum bugs are biting again?

[#1]

I've got a couple notifications outstanding but clicking on the link at the top of the page goes to 'my profile'. We've seen this several times previously? Not spotted any other anomolis. (Yet )

[#2]

Strange one @MauriceC , clicking that link for me behaves correctly (a minute ago)

[#3]

Nope, as per John's post, it is currently working as it should. That's using FF 67.0.

I did get this between  01:00 and 02:30 this am, but no one else mentioned it so thought I'd wait and see:

(it was only like this when logged out of the forums, when I logged in it changed to the normal online status)

However, the forum pages have been rather slow to load fully for the last ¾ of an hour. They were fine earlier.

(this reply window was slow to fully load too).

[#4]

Odd?  It went away after about 15 minutes and now seems OK.

[#5]

It is partially back (again).

Clicking my AV goes to my profile, not the options, and there is no option to mark a board as read. (as at 0650).

Also, as of this edit, 'collapsed' sections are not collapsed.

[#6]

Added info (1) No option to log out of forums available, and (2) the situation exists on FF67.0 on the desktop and Safari & Dolphin on the iPad.

[#7]

Working fine for me  @08:18

Win 7  FF67.0

Beginning to look as if a rogue server in the farm has some of it's files not up to date, hence the randomness?

[#8]

@MauriceC Guess that's the only sensible thought, but still weird that the iPad picks the same error up?

[#9]

I'm of the opinion that this is caused by stale and bad session management on the servers myself. If you wait long enough it 'heals' itself as does a restart of the servers.

[#10]

Just went to profile but as soon as I finished reading this it was back to normal.

[#11]

@Anonymous Again, a distinct possibility, but I've been waiting since ~0630 this morning, cleared cache and cookies and rebooted laptop - to no avail.

[#12]

I don't think this is client side @jab1 which is why your attempts haven't 'fixed' it. Assuming my understanding is correct the servers will maintain session state to allow for load balancing, user tracking etc and I'm sure it is this part of the system that is broken.

[#13]

Went to unread topics and back stuck again.

Never get any of these problems on the ebay forum.

I'm guessing they are on a better/higher sort of maintenance plan?

Just checked it works ok on the forum apart from the unread topics page.

[#14]

Thanks, @Anonymous that makes sense.BUT I am still a little confused as to why all three of the devices I have tried - and the three browsers all have the same problem?

[#15]

Because the common denominator here @jab1 are the servers, and if their session management is trashed as I suspect this why the issue is replicated across all of your devices.

If it were client based then surely one of these devices would work as intended, but as this isn't the case then the finger has to get pointed downstream.