[Panneth]

I've just come back from using Internet Explorer for the internet at uni to using AOL at home and I've noticed that the little yellow things next to new posts in the forum aren't showing up. Also the list of new posts that you can get to from the home page isn't working on AOL.

I was just wondering if anyone knows if there is something I could change on this computer for AOL that would sort this out. I don't want to miss out on anything important...

Thanks peeps!

[Robbie]

There is one simple thing you can change. That's AOL? Get a real ISP

Are you running Internet Security software? This is probably not an AOL thing, but a home-computer thing... (unless other AOL users have hte same, but there are plenty of AOL users on this site).

[Panneth]

Thanks Rob.

[Miluiwen]

Which AOL version do you have? It shows fine usually on mine. I, sadly have AOL, but it has been loyal (in between all the faults...)

[Panneth]

We're on version 9 broadband.

[BittenBuggy]

I have 9.0 as well and dont have any problems? But I 'borrow' service...

[Robbie]

You still didn't indicate if you were using any security products?

You may find the links are there - just hold your mouse over and see if the pointer changes shape, but the graphics are not shown.

Can you see smilies such as or is that space blank?

(The AOL bit was a joke!)

[BittenBuggy]

Robbie - jokes are useless if nobody gets them but you

[Panneth]

I can see the smilies and everything, it's just the yellow lights. Though today they seem to be working half the time. It's all very strange.

We've got a firewall running, but that's new and this was happening before we installed it.

Any thoughts?

[Robbie]

I think this is just an IE thing - sometimes IE just fails to load some graphics. If you right-click on the place where the yellow light should be, choose "show picture" - does this work?

If so, I don't think there is a lot you can do about it. Just an annoying Microsoft bug.

[Panneth]

Sorry, I think I've confused you by not describing things properly. The picture loads, but when there are new posts it's not bright yellow it's just the ordinary dark yellow.

[Robbie]

A-ha. Now I understand...

This again will have nothing to do with AOL - it's the forum code. It does seem a bit "fussy" as to what is a new post and what isn't - I've never actually investigated why this is (the forum code is not mine - we use s very popular free software called phpBB for the forum).

As soon as you reply to a thread, it appears to mark all the others as read - for some reason. Plus, if you spend too long at the site before going to the forum, again, they all get marked as read before you get there.

My trick is, on arrival at the site, click on the "There are 71 new posts" link and clear those down first. Then get on with the stories and other stuff. Not reliable, but works OK.

There is supposed to be a new version of phpBB out eventually - we'll look at using that when if does arrive. Until then, we're a bit stuck

[Panneth]

I've tried clicking on "There are X new posts" but this doesn't work. All I get is a message saying there are no posts that matched my search or query. I can't remember which.

Edit: It says this "No topics or posts met your search criteria"

[Robbie]

OK - I'll try working this out. Might take me a while longer than the other support stuff as I'll need to decipher the code...

Rob

[Panneth]

Thanks Rob!