I’ve had a complaint by email that the blog isn’t refreshing correctly, and that the reader can’t post comments. I see no problems here. Anybody else having any trouble?
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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Yeah, I’ve had a few problems at times. Occasionally have to use the tab key to get the pointer into the comment box, and then down to the details… but it is no big deal. If the page doesn’t refresh right, I just hit it again. 🙂 How long since you updated the software?
Yes, for the last several months when I load the blog I have to hit refresh to see the most current post. Also if I want to read the comments and it says there are say 5, more often or not only 3 show up till I refresh that page as well. I’ve never had any problems commenting though.
No, no particular problems here.
This blog always serves me the last page I looked at, never the newest version. So if I want to check for new material, I must refresh the page. Of the few blogs that I visit, this is the only one that works that way, but it’s something I have always seen as a mere peculiarity, not a problem.
I’ve had to hit refresh forever to get new content. Same if comments since the last time I refreshed. No big deal. Never had trouble commenting.
In my blog feed I can not click on the blog link and get the newest post. But if I click on the title of the post I get the newest post and then can back track to any under that one that I haven’t read. It will also tell me you have, say, five comments but I only see four. Been going on for several months and like Ben I just thought it was a peculiarity of your blog not a big problem.
I have to refresh sometimes to see the latest posts, and if I’ve read the comments on a post when I want to read new comments on it i sometimes need to refresh to see all of them, it’s been like that for as long as I can remember. I’ve never had an issue posting.
While there have been a few issues here and there the blog is OK. One thing I have noticed is when writing a long comment at a certain point the comment obscures the email/name/website section that one has to fill in to post. My work around for this is to trim my comment to a manageable size.
No problems of any kind since forever. Using FireFox. Clear the cache on exit.
The refresh thing as others have mentioned. I figured it’s something in my system and just keep the refresh button active. No biggie.
I earlier tried three times to post a comment in the “Screw ’em all” thread. When I typed my comments, the “Post Comment” button disappeared.
If this one goes thru, it will be “fixed” I guess.
Well, there it is.
Beats me, for sure.
I’ve had to load the page twice to see the most current entry ever since I started reading the blog (about a year). I suspected my ISP might be using some kind of cache server but it only happens with your blog. Trickery to get more page hits, I’ll just bet… 😉
I’ve had the odd problem at time, thought I was just inept. Well, maybe I am.
Uh…it’s going to be embarrassing if that really turns out to explain it. Page views started doing really well about a year ago…
It’s been an issue for a while – don’t recall when it started happening. It is almost certainly a cache issue. I looked at the page source, and I’m not seeing a cache-control header. Well, it’s been a while since I looked into the guts of HTTP transport, but I assume that methodology is still what’s typically used. This is something that might need to be fixed by your web hosting people. Not sure if there’s any settings in WordPress to affect it, but maybe. Might also be a setting in the PHP.INI file. My memory of this is a bit vague.
Not sure what effect this has on your hit count. The web browser loading the page from cache would not, I think, result in an increment in the hit counter, and thus, the end user doing a page refresh would not be a double hit. But that’d depend on how the page counts are tallied. An offsite counter, such as StatCounter, might send a cache-control header for its stuff. If you’re just going by the WordPress dashboard, it’s likely a pretty good indicator.
I tried to write a book in your comments section. I couldn’t get past the 3rd page. Serves as a good excuse not to write a book, so … no problem
As far as I can tell the RSS feed is working fine which is how I discover new posts.
Yeah. I tend to get things loaded out of the Cache too. Hit “refresh” and it fixes it. It’s your browser doing that part, not the site.
Assuming that this shows up, comments are as normal.