No post/view count on Unread page

[SteveITS]

I saw this yesterday but then I thought it went away? Maybe a bug from last night's update?

On https://forum.netgate.com/unread I see:
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Other pages show:
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It seems to work on other/category pages, or maybe it's random.

HTML shows a blank number (in the span tag):

<div class="col-md-1 hidden-sm hidden-xs stats stats-votes">
<span title="0"></span><br>
<small>Votes</small>
</div>

[johnpoz]

@SteveITS you're talking about this right

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When something shows up in unread I will take a notice to what I show.. But currently unread says I have no unread ;)

[SteveITS]

@johnpoz Not sure how to get to Home/Recent actually. :) I am looking here:
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*you're ;)

[johnpoz]

@SteveITS if snake it would of bit you - right next to where you're clicking

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currently when I go to unread I see this ;)

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edit: corrected my fopaux with your/you're

[SteveITS]

@johnpoz said in No post/view count on Unread page:

if snake it would of bit you - right next to where you clicking

[johnpoz]

@SteveITS A while back I edited some stuff in my profile, and that unread rarely shows any numbers any more.. I was tired of it showing 99+ heheh.. When I know I had gone through every thing I was wanting to read..

I think now it only shows numbers when I have not read a topic that I am following or something..

Yeah if they recently updated the forums software, quite possible its a new bug.. Remember last update there were a few of them that were noticed.. They just recently fixed the one of them. But it was before this recent update where forums were under maint for a while.

[anthonys]

@SteveITS I am seeing the same issue.
If I visit a page directly e.g., recent, the Votes Posts and Views counts are all blank. If I then click the Recent Icon at the top of the page, the counts appear. Same behaviour for Unread.
For me, every time, 100% reliable.
Started roughly 3 days (not sure exactly) ago.

[tgl]

@anthonys
I was seeing that too for the last few days, but right now it's working again. I use Safari and generally go directly to

https://forum.netgate.com/unread

via a bookmark. The new posts are all there, but the counts were not.

[johnpoz]

So changed my settings so see stuff in unread, and views are showing for me.. Will check on it now and then.

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[SteveITS]

@anthonys said in No post/view count on Unread page:

If I then click the Recent Icon at the top of the page, the counts appear. Same behaviour for Unread.

I see that in limited testing as well.

The first attempt logs this in the browser console:

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://forum.netgate.com/socket.io/?_csrf=4c4326cedc8bd4df6b9c********************940bb7f3cbee03ee32aad5838628bed569&EIO=4&transport=websocket&sid=28IAkURCb_6Y*****Acv. nodebb.min.js:70:29484
Request to access cookie or storage on “https://alb.reddit.com/rp.gif?ts=1714769083388&id=t2_qi25be0j&event=PageVisit&m.itemCount=undefined&m.value=&m.valueDecimal=undefined&m.currency=undefined&m.transactionId=&m.customEventName=&m.products=&m.conversionId=&uuid=1ef649ca-dba9-49ac-96ce-2194f13850b6&aaid=&em=&external_id=&idfa=&integration=gtm&opt_out=0&sh=1920&sw=1200&v=rdt_3ba1cddf&dpm=&dpcc=&dprc=” was blocked because it came from a tracker and content blocking is enabled.

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://px.ads.linkedin.com/wa/. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).

Clicking the toolbar icon (which shows the counts) shows only the CORS block.

Not sure why it's poking Reddit or LinkedIn...I do have an ad blocker plugin though.

[anthonys]

@SteveITS said in No post/view count on Unread page:

I do have an ad blocker plugin though

In my case, both uBlock origin and pfBlockerNG in use.

[stephenw10]

Hmm, also seeing that here. Digging...
Not seeing connections to reddit or linkedin though.

[johnpoz]

@stephenw10 just saw it here.. On a refresh of the page

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Switching between recent and unread seems to make it work as normal.

[SteveITS]

Also here on my profile page:
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Edit:
and similar errors there, loading snap.licdn.com and px.ads.linkedin.com which are blocked by pfBlocker.

Edit 2:
reloads are failing on wss://forum.netgate.com/socket.io as above. A private window doesn't show the other URLs though, need to dig into that.

[SteveITS]

Also the forum is missing counts on the home/category page sometimes. Probably all the same code.

As noted Firefox private window didn't call the other analytics URLs.

I opened Chrome, which I rarely use, and according to Chrome's inspector it looks like the odd calls are coming from Google:
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and
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and look at that, it is, https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-N2P5PS2 contents:

...],["h","https://snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics/insight.min.js",...

...eventType"],[15,"k"]],["b","https://www.redditstatic.com/ads/pixel.js",[17,[15,"a"],...

Would not have expected that. It apparently does not call that in Firefox private window, but DOES in a Chrome incognito window. I wonder if it's detecting that somehow.

Anyway, digression over, back to the missing numbers. :)

[stephenw10]

Hmm, odd. I don't see that at all but I think I'm blocking all that. Probably in multiple places!

[anthonys]

@stephenw10 And like magic, counts have reappeared (well for me, at the moment).

[stephenw10]

Yup, forum update appears to have fixed it.

[Gertjan]

@stephenw10

Nice.
Another subject probably but :

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what is 'my' browser told do look for things on reddit, linkin google, and some others ?
Is this just a way to get the site more known ?

[SteveITS]

@Gertjan https://forum.netgate.com/topic/187906/no-post-view-count-on-unread-page/14
look up a few posts. :) it’s coming from the Google tracking. As to why…dunno.