...maybe that was all it needed? It's showing up fine now. That's weird. No more error messages either.

morosemocha wrote:

...maybe that was all it needed? It's showing up fine now. That's weird. No more error messages either.

It was probably cranky cause I deleted half a thread. I wouldn't worry now that it's backed up.

Rushita wrote:

I totally admire you for doing that.  I can't do that on the forum I moderate on.  I'm called "Siggy Police" and I literally do that, and we have the same signature rule.  Sometimes I can't get people to convince on the rule.  They also seem to have memory problem that they completely forget about that when they change their signature 6 months down the road.....  I'm getting tired of PM people over and over >.>

I like to see what people are saying. Mostly people are pretty okay about it here, but there were enough pm's about it that I just couldn't do it anymore. This is my relax place, like a lot of other people, and I just can't relax if I have to keep asking over and over.

It's possible that you accidentally missed a message in there? Try deleting your pm inbox? Weird...

I figured, I've had that happen a couple times.

It does that for me too. Since it is the IFD, I guess it was done on purpose..

It makes sense, but now it might be a little more difficult to see what's being posted if I have to log on every time I want to check the IFD.

I probably shouldn't have assumed that it was a glitch. It's not as though an entire section of the forum could vanish just like that.

Razara wrote:

It makes sense, but now it might be a little more difficult to see what's being posted if I have to log on every time I want to check the IFD.

That is the downside. I'm sniffing out whether it's big enough of one for people to have a problem with it before I make it permanent. It just seems to me that IFD would be better kept away from prying eyes, we are very personal on there, and having it totally invisible to guests would reduce the risk of people you don't want, say, finding out you're a lesbian, from finding out.

Giovanna wrote:

It just seems to me that IFD would be better kept away from prying eyes, we are very personal on there, and having it totally invisible to guests would reduce the risk of people you don't want, say, finding out you're a lesbian, from finding out.

Technically, they could find that out from the Sims threads, but I see your point. A lot of stuff in the IFD that we post is very personal.

And satyreyes, I had my account set to Auto Log-in for a little while once before, but it made it rather obvious just how obsessive-compulsive I am about checking if anything new has been posted on the forum. Next thing you know I'll be washing my hands 50 times a day.

I started a new thread for this topic in IFD. Please post your opinions on it there.

Okay, now the icon works.. I don't know if it just took some time to work, or if one of the mods fixed it, but either way, yay and thank you.

Lately I have had some error messages, something like the site lasted too much to load... but my connection was fine (all other windows were working without problems).

Also, I keep having the feeling that some posts appear and disappear... e.g. I was posting on the gripes thread, I previewed and it showed no more posts; then I submitted and there were 2 posts from five minutes before. I thought it was only me, but then re-reading the previous page of that thread I found a post I'm sure it wasn't there the last time I checked... and I'm also obsessive-compulsive on this, I always make sure I haven't forget to read an interesting post.

Is that paranoia, or has something to do with the loading of the page?

....working on it. Also, I'm announcing that you guys may see some glitchy behavior from the forums-- appearances and disappearances and such-- later on tonight. DO NOT PANIC. Just wrap the towel around your head and it'll think it can't see you.

Most often, that means you have a private message that you accidentally skimmed over. Check your messages, all of them since the last time you remember not having that alert.