I require assistance

[SwollenBellyEnvy]

I'm finding that many times (maybe all) when I click on a link, I'm delivered a page that seems like it comes from cache. The most notable example is that a notification appears for a private message (and I arrived at the page without hitting the back button) that I've already read - and in the interim I've viewed other pages where the notification properly no longer appears. (Imagine my disappointment when I think I'm that popular to get so many new messages, only to find out they are false alarms - it's up there with a false positive on a pregnancy test! hehe)

Today I went to the fiction archive. Two stories with posts that I'd already read displayed in bold as in unread. The last posts in both were comments that I read in a previous visit to the fiction archive. When I refreshed the page, those two posts were indicated as read. Two different stories then appeared as unread at the top of the list.

Prior to this situation, I tried deleting private messages from TRASH to free up space. When I clicked the checkbox to delete the no-longer-needed messages and clicked on the DELETE action, the messages remained in the list. Thinking I'd done something in error, I tried it again with the same results. When I refreshed the page, the messages no longer appeared.

Normally I'd think it was just me - or that my tin foil hat was in need of refolding or adjustment. Since others reported peculiarities, I've tried to describe as accurate assessment as a pregnancy brain and my memory allows.

I'd also like to note that I've noticed these strange happenings for several days.

I hope this helps.

Postscript:
Here’s another example that demonstrates what I’ve experienced in the last few minutes. I clicked on GENERAL DISCUSSION, then on the LAST POST from BLUEGIRL285. Her post was “DINNER” in the WORD ASSOCIATION thread. I posted “DESSERT”. After such a post, my post immediately appears. It did not. I clicked to refresh the page – and two other posts (#3813 and #3814)appeared (and with the same original idea!) after the BLUEGIRL285 post (#3812) and before mine (#3815)!

When I returned to edit this post, the LAST POST indication on the prior to this page was indicated for jcp08's post.