Since the latest site upgrade my Thumbs Up button has disappeared. Obviously it hasn't for others, as the stories I've been reading have been accumulating Kudoses like crazy.
Is there a simple solution? Or is it just me?
There are a couple of other anomalies, like the facility to add a picture to a PM (other than a thumbnail) has also disappeared and in the Headline topics I get
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Is the site still under partial reconstruction?
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suggestion maybe you need to do a cache clear. I had to recently.
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The kudos button is written in javascript. If you have your browser set to block javascript, you should see a substitute button that takes you to a separate page to do the voting. The other problems sound like a corrupted CSS file. We cache the CSS to speed up page loads so if your cache gets corrupted, this kind of thing might happen. I suppose the problem with the kudos button could be cache related too.
Usually you can force a reload of the caching on a page by using shift, ctrl or alt key when you hit the reload button on your browser. If that fails, you may have to close your browser and reopen it. If that doesn't work, rebooting your machine might. This kind of thing can happen with almost any modern webpage because they all use caching. Not all of the caches are on your machine, your ISP may also be caching, and the company that operates our firewall caches pages too.
We have our caches and the ones on the firewall servers set to expire after two hours. Waiting out the cycle will probably fix things if nothing else does.
The other thing that could cause this problem is malware. Our servers are constantly scanned for malware but shit can still happen. But mostly, malware infects end viewer machines, not server stuff. Let's hope it is just a caching problem. Please, keep us posted.
Hugs,
Erin
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