Still having trouble commenting on the kittens

I have trouble logging in on the main page from my work computer, Teresa. I don’t bother to try, but I am able to log onto the chat forum. Please keep posting in the chat forum so we can get to know you better. Purrs and hugs!! 🙂

Yes, Teresa, my niece is the Hello Kitty Princess. Thanks again for the crochet pattern. That was very thoughtful of you. Glad to see you posting again!

Sheri, the new chat forum took me a long time to get used to. Some threads go too fast for me to keep up with, especially on the night shift thread. If there are several conversations going on at once, it can be confusing. Folks are pretty good at saying the name of the person their comment is directed to. I also figure out how to catch up by looking at how long ago the last comment was posted on the main forum page. If I haven’t looked at the threads for a couple of hours, I know that any thread more than a couple of hours old doesn’t have anything new for me to look at so I just focus on the newer comments. Don’t be discouraged, Sheri. 🙂

These issues aren’t actually issues with TDK, but are the results of how many cable companies handle webpages.

I’ll try and explain this as best I can. Your cable company may see that a webpage is being viewed by lots of people. To speed things along a bit, it may save a copy of that page on its servers (this is called a cache), and when people try to view that webage, they get the version that is held by the cable company, not one from the website itself.

Now imagine this: you’ve been logged in at TDK. A day later you revisit the site, but instead of getting your logged-in page, you get the page held by the cable company, which might be a logged-out version of the page. Alternatively, you might see a logged-in page from another user – it all depends on which page has been saved by the cable company in its cache, and this is why we see these problems. There’s very little you can do apart from being patient, although you could try forcing a refresh:

Windows:

ctrl + F5

Mac:

apple+r

But even that is no guarantee of success. You’ll probably find that these problems don’t exist when you use another Internet Service Providor, because they handle this kind of thing differently.

And just to show that this isn’t just us, this is from the FAQ page on Metafilter, which is probably the biggest community weblog on the net: http://faq.metafilter.com/#98

I hope all this makes at least some sense!

Good Evening:

You might try this in Internet Explorer. Go to Tools/Internet Options/on the General Tab, the button in Temporary Internet Files called Settings. You should see four choices there. Under “check for newer versions of stored pages,” click the radio button for “every visit to the page.” This will clear your local cache and force a refresh.

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