The forum does a new thing!

@thismyusername No, we print your comments so they can be recycled into boxes, toilet paper, and other consumer goods

@Ignorant I'm sort of having that same problem. It's like the images show up as a grey box initially and then if I wait a long time, they eventually do load. It didn't do that yesterday.

They are now working for me. Issue resolved, nothing to see here.

@Ignorant It seemed to work for a little while then the problem comes back. I think it depends on how many visitors there are at one time. This is what I see before the image loads:

@cengland0 originally I wasn't even getting the gray boxes, it was just nothing. Now I get the boxes and the image seems to pop in right away at least the times I've looked.

If you say the issue is intermittent then I'm calling this not resolved, stuff to see here.

@Ignorant It's now Saturday morning at 7:14 am eastern and it's still doing it. It does it on my mobile device using 4GLTE as well as using business class internet 50GB connected via 802.11 Gigabit ethernet.

@cengland0 50GB? Please tell me that's a typo. I get 2 Mb on a good day.

@SSteve Not a typo. I work from home and am a heavy internet user (newsgroups if you know what I mean) so I have business class internet that costs approximately $140/month.

@cengland0 the typo is "GB". Pretty sure you mean "Mbps".

@shawn Ha,ha. You're right. I didn't catch that. Yes, it's 50 Mbps.

@cengland0 Ok. I feel better now. I was thinking you had fifty parallel fiber links.

@cengland0 Which newsgroup provider do you use?

@dashcloud I use supernews because of their retention and the ridiculous number of concurrent downloads allowed. I probably had their service for 15 to 20 years now.

Only problem is that they have given some groups (four letters starting with R and another starting with M) the ability to remove posts without sending in individual DMCA notices to the provider.

@SSteve I'm getting 100 Gigabits per second internet over here in Austin :P

@eulestadt So you run Netflix out of your house?

@SSteve Nah. Just good ol' Google Fiber.

@shawn I use chrome exclusively on both my Android devices, Mac, and PC. All three of them suddenly have this image issue.

Extensions on mobile Chrome, none.

Extensions on Mac and PC: Adblock Plus (Disabled for meh), Bookmarks Menu, Chromebleed, EditThisCookie, Ghostery (meh is whitelisted), Google Cast, Google Docs, LastPass, Save to Pocket, Unofficel Meh Forum Unread Scroller

@cengland0 ran some more tests with Google Chrome on Mac here and everything's working as it should be. Any other Chrome users out there care to report?

@shawn @katylava yeah! Also fixed the garbled up header icons on my iPhone running iOS7. Thx. Before: ('After' not required, now it just works.)

@RedOak why aren't you running iOS 8?

@shawn I like 7 and am running a an iPhone 5 so not missing much. Will do it at some point. But having started on tech stuff with a Commodore PET, Trash-80, and PDP-11, I'm conditioned by lots of tech cycles not to mess with stuff that is working great.

@RedOak Or at least have a way to go back.

@jqubed oh how I'd love the ability to go back (without jumping thru save-off-a-copy-of-the-backup hoops)! Or the ability to pick a version. We have an iPad 2 running iOS6 for which I'd love to have iOS7.

@dashcloud I looked a little bit at average number of replies per comment. 10 comments might sound low until you realize each comment brings 3 replies with it and you quickly end up with 40+ "posts".

@shawn okay- that makes better sense then. Thanks!

@shawn But the problem with that (and I always click to see all posts) is that new replies that are posted on the first few posts are never seen. Perhaps if you could expand all comments that have unread replies, then I wouldn't have a problem with the low 10 number.

@dashcloud Also if you had a ton of unread comments and then clicked on expand comments you lost the marking that they were unread which is a pain. Any way to keep them marked as unread with you expand to see what is now hidden? For that matter you lose that as well when you post a comment in a thread. I'd love for that not to go away (like it will now) when I click on say it.

@Kidsandliz My recommendation is use the wonderful Meh scroller extension: https://meh.com/forum/topics/hey-you-wanna-click-a-button-to-scroll-through-unread-replies Works on everything except iPhone/iPad. Unless a thread is really short, I just let the extension do its thing, and it hasn't failed me yet.

@Kidsandliz unread comment/reply indicator doesn't disappear when you click the button to expand

@shawn I thought it did as occasionally on some threads I had read very little it then looked like I had read it all when I clicked on it… Maybe I just hit a glitch like the two times this month I clicked meh, was still signed in but I notice no meh face… Oh well… not that important.

If I could down-vote this feature I would. Just kidding. Don't EVER go there meh!

@dashcloud dang it now you can tell when I star myself (like priming a tip jar ya know).

@thismyusername Only if it is an original comment and not a reply to one :)

@thismyusername I like your analogy.

@gio well that's a creative use of stars.

@RedOak One does what one needs to do. There have been a few posts I felt really bad about starring, but since it was anonymous I told myself it wasn't really important. Now I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to me to scroll back through all those old posts and remove my star from the ones that trouble my conscience. Maybe it just bothers me more than it should.

@gio Many of us are having the same issue.

@mfladd I still think we need to make @TaRDy the goat for creating a browser extension to automatically star your own posts.

@jqubed See I didn't even know this exsisted. But anyone who made an extension to do this would have my vote. Unfortunately, after a quick look @TaRDy served as goat for Nov. 2014. Can be you goat'ed twice?

@mfladd Nope. @Tardy jumped the gun. @cengland0 was the real goat.

@narfcake Thanks. I see I had to read further down to see what happened there.

@mfladd yea that was @narfcake's fault...narf made me ruin the nice list

@narfcake In the time it took me to find that list, you already found and posted it (or more likely, you already had it posted before I even came here from my email notification).

Curse you goat and your speedy goat searches!

I feel like @TaRDy's strong desire to be the goat is the best argument against him being goat.

@TaRDy Don't worry, you'll be goated sooner or later for your antics.

@jqubed It's probably the latter. There's definitely a delay when it comes to the notifications.

@narfcake I do like how @TaRDy pulled the goat blame card on you, but if he created an evil extension that stars yourself - he has my vote.

@mfladd but could you care more?

@nadroj But after reading your reply "but could you care more?" it could be taken in two ways. The first way, as in asking me if I could put a little more effort into caring - so came my reply of "nope...I don't care. But it could also be taken as: well, you just wrote a long rambling diatribe about "stars", so you do actually care.......DAMN IT!

and my apologies I did not mean to start a new conversation, just a reply (still sleepy) Actually, I don't have to take responsibilty for this mishap - it is @narfcakes fault - yes!

@mfladd Speaking of non-responsibility, are the email notifications delayed again? I didn't get one for this, and I can vouch I was still asleep at the time.

@narfcake Ha! I was earlier going to hit you up with this question when you mentioned it above. I am getting very spotty notifications. Some come, some don't which makes checking each thread I spout nonsense in tiresome. I have checked and rechecked my notification box a couple of times to no avail. Glitch? Who's at fault here? I am relieving you of the burden on this one and calling out meh!

Bringing up old stuff, but whatever. @narfcake You didn't get a notification before because of the 's' added at the end. Without the appropriate apostrophe, the forum thought the s was part of your name. Also, @mfladd, I'm pretty sure @nadroj's 'could you care' question was referring to your common misuse of the phrase "could(n't) care less". When you say you could care less, you are implying that you do indeed care. The correct usage is couldn't care less because you're saying you've reached the lowest possible level of caring. Okay, I'm going back to bed with a heating pad now, I think.

@PurplePawprints My Purple friend, Ha! I can tell you are bored with the lack of activity here. In the future, I will look to you to notify me of my grammatical mistakes. There will probably be a lot of them. :)

@mfladd Yeah, sorry about that. I'm laying in bed on a heating pad, with a laptop in my lap, and am extremely bored. I wasn't trying to be uppity, just pointing out one of those things that half the people always get wrong. My grammar is not as good as it used to be, so I try to not to go full-on nazi anymore.

@PurplePawprints Didn't think you were uppity at all. I tend to free flow things which leads to either grammatical mistakes or incomplete thoughts that when I re-read I can understand how they might be misunderstood. But it is your job now to keep me in check. Hope you have some extra time.

@mfladd I shall fulfill this mission to the best of my ability. I'm so glad I don't have a job.

@KDemo They brought that feature back a few days ago. Thanks again, @shawn!

@Thumperchick - I was thinking it was just on the comments before today, but of course I may have missed it.
I should specify I'm on a PC, may be different for mobile users.

@KDemo I'm PC as well. I know I saw it yesterday. shrug It doesn't matter when it happened, just that it happened. :)

@Thumperchick - I'm just glad it works now, too . . .my entire self image is based on meh stars ;-)

@mfladd - I think if you have the thread open when someone tags you, you won't get a notification.

@mfladd It's supposed to be that if you view the thread within 10? minutes of being tagged, you won't get the email. Sometimes I get the email anyway.