Problem with on off indicators

Started by Kathryn_, April 06, 2018, 03:44:37 PM

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Kathryn_

April 06, 2018, 03:44:37 PM
I am running SMF 2.0.15 and I have this situation of my forum not showing new posts by the on off indicators that are on the left of the page....  It does not work with default either.... what can I do to repair this? You can see what I mean on the index page under trailers I loaded a new youtube today and it still won't work ???

my site is:
TopBooks

Kindred

#1
April 06, 2018, 03:50:03 PM
account to test this with? 
there will never be "new" for guests
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Kindred

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April 06, 2018, 04:51:52 PM
hmmm.... it seems there are other issues with your site. I was originally unable to log in, because you have your login session time set to 0 minutes.

Please change that setting if you want anyone to actually be able to log in.

... but once i did log in, the on/off are working exactly as expected.

All show "ON" to start with. (correct, new account, has not read anything)
go to movie trailers - click "mark all as read"
back to main index
now all show ON, except Movie Trailer which shows OFF.


--edit -- I deleted your previous post... you actually posted an admin level account. eeks...
I changed the cookie setting to 15 minutes.
I also removed the admin permission for the test account, just in case anyone else tries it.

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#3
April 06, 2018, 04:53:23 PM
Okay well what should I change the log in to 120?

GigaWatt

#4
April 06, 2018, 04:58:52 PM
Admin --> Configuration --> Server Settings --> Cookies and Sessions --> Seconds before an unused session timeout
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Kathryn_

#5
April 06, 2018, 05:13:43 PM
Yes I did get it and know where but I did not change it to 120 and left it at 15 since that is appropriate  :)

GigaWatt

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April 06, 2018, 06:40:58 PM
It's in seconds.

QuoteThis is the number of seconds for sessions to last after they haven't been accessed. If a session is not accessed for too long, it is said to have "timed out". Anything higher than 2400 is recommended.
"This is really a generic concept about human thinking - when faced with large tasks we're naturally inclined to try to break them down into a bunch of smaller tasks that together make up the whole."

"A 500 error loosely translates to the webserver saying, "WTF?"..."

Kathryn_

#7
April 07, 2018, 02:48:05 PM
You change it under cookies and the login is not in seconds it is in minutes so 15 is fine. Thank you for your suggestion though Gina

GigaWatt

#8
April 07, 2018, 04:48:40 PM
Is this the setting?

Default login cookies length (in minutes)
"This is really a generic concept about human thinking - when faced with large tasks we're naturally inclined to try to break them down into a bunch of smaller tasks that together make up the whole."

"A 500 error loosely translates to the webserver saying, "WTF?"..."

Kathryn_

#9
April 08, 2018, 03:03:40 PM
Yes and I made an error and thought I could zero that out by putting a 0 to open the time limit but no... :) 

Kindred

#10
April 09, 2018, 07:14:24 AM
you don't want it to be unlimited anyway....    users stay in your online list for that length of time - so leaving it at "unlimited" means that a usr would always be listed in your who's online list and your log in the database would grow quickly out of control
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#11
April 09, 2018, 05:07:57 PM
I understand.. so what does it mean, when a user is listed as Unknown Action? Where are they?

Kindred

#12
April 09, 2018, 08:26:23 PM
Somewhere that has not been specifically added to the action tracking array... often a mod...
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#13
April 09, 2018, 10:34:22 PM
Thank you for explaining.. Much appreciated Kindred  I think something is amiss though because the last few days I have been averaging about 15 people an hour but at the bottom of the forum it still says the most users online is 3 February 2018
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