My forum spy doesn't really seem to be updating.

[R94N]

Is it possible I messed something up in the settings, or are other people being affected by this as well? I load the page, and displays some posts in the usual list, but it doesn't auto-update like it used to. I refresh the page and more posts appear, but I shouldn't have to do that. Sorry for creating so many threads today, but I had a few issues

 

[Angelo95210]

Mine is updating, not very fast though...

 

[MacDawg]

Have you tried logging out and logging back in?
Closing your browser and restarting it?
Clearing the cache?
You know, the usual browser type things

 

[spinnerlys]

Have you reset your browser yet?

 

[R94N]

Have you reset your browser yet?

Yes. I'll do it again though.

UPDATE: Restarted and reset my browser, cleared the cache, logged in/back out again, and it still doesn't do anything. Might it have something to do with the forums I've configured not to show?

 

[WildCowboy]

Ya, Forum Spy has some funky-looking behavior if you have a lot of forums excluded. It shows 60 posts at a time as it live updates, but if you exclude forums, it doesn't just show you 60 posts from the non-excluded forums. It takes the normal, unfiltered 60 posts and simply hides the ones from forums on your exclusion list.

So if you've hidden a lot of forums, particularly the very active ones like the iPhone forums, you'll notice a lot fewer than 60 posts showing on Forum Spy. And if the only forums you have non-excluded have relatively low posting rates, it might seem like Forum Spy isn't working at all.

 

[Hellhammer]

Possible explanation:

I'll take a crack at a possible explanation based on what I remember from an answer Knox gave me a while back about this. My numbers are estimates.

This happens whenever posts are being submitted in rapid succession on forums that you have excluded in your spy preferences. I think by default, without any exclusions, forum spy displays 50-ish posts or 15 minutes worth, whichever comes first. When loads of posts are being submitted in your excluded forums those 50-ish posts are merely being hidden, so you're only seeing a few minutes worth of posts from forums you have INcluded.

I'm hoping that makes sense/is correct.

I noticed it yesterday too. I laughed when I only had 4 posts displayed in forum spy. I only exclude about 15 forums, your 56 made me giggle.

When the forums are positively buzzing with posts, such as on update days, keynotes, etc, I think it's typically better to just enter the specific forums you're interested in rather than rely on the spy.

Very close to being exact There's no time limit, just a 60 post limit, and as you hinted at, the phenomenon will be more prominent when you have lots of excluded forums and/or the forums are busier than normal (there were more posts yesterday than even keynote day last week).

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10166010

 

[R94N]

Yeah, I think I'll stop using Forum Spy, like iBlue said in that thread. Usually I only visit a few forums here anyway. Thanks!

UPDATE: Yay, it seems to be working okay now.