What cookie is responsible for...

grumbler

... changing the threads that I looked into recently from bold to normal font in board view?

Sometimes this stops working, and deleting all MSE cookies does help.

Is it possible to delete some particular MSE cookie to avoid logging in again?

It's FF if it makes any difference.

Mandelbrot

grumbler wrote: »

... changing the threads that I looked into recently from bold to normal font in board view?

Deleting the cookie bbthread_lastview will reset things so that threads you have looked at and are therefore in normal font will revert back to bold.
Is that what you wanted? :think:

Mandelbrot

grumbler wrote: »

Is it possible to delete some particular MSE cookie to avoid logging in again?

Does clicking/ticking the 'Remember Me' box not work?

grumbler

Mandelbrot wrote: »

Does clicking/ticking the 'Remember Me' box not work?

It does work - by saving a cookie.
After deleting all MSE cookies you have to sign in again.

grumbler

Mandelbrot wrote: »

Deleting the cookie bbthread_lastview will reset things so that threads you have looked at and are therefore in normal font will revert back to bold.
Is that what you wanted? :think:

IIRC, I did try deleting this cookie today, and this didn't help.
Will wait for the next time this happens and report the result.

Mandelbrot

grumbler wrote: »

It does work - by saving a cookie.
After deleting all MSE cookies you have to sign in again.

Why are you deleting all MSE cookies?

grumbler

You seem to have missed the point.
I am deleting all MSE cookies because this solves the problem I face.
I'd be happy to delete just one or two cookies if I knew which ones to delete.
That's why I started this thread to ask which cookies to delete.

Mandelbrot

I was simply trying to establish what exactly the problem is.
As my "Is that what you wanted? :think:" comment in my first post was intended to signify, I am not really sure at this point what you are trying to achieve.

Use of the MSE Forum can generate a whole host of cookies on your system, some 'first party' ones like those connected with use of vBulletin and Google Analytics, and lots of 'third party' ones.
Obviously they are all designed to do different things.
But some of them can interact occasionally in rather strange ways, especially if you are a bit 'non-standard' in your site use :( and the coding of the site itself can lead to certain cookies getting rather 'confused' or just simply 'too big'.

MSE has (at least in my case) pretty much always had a problem with the way some cookies work. Nothing drastic, more of an ongoing niggle, probably due to the way that MSE has grown from a small site to a large one, adding stuff piecemeal over time.

I have learned to simply accept it as 'one of those things'.
It clearly doesn't occur for the majority of the users, which is where the technical expertise of the site will be rightly aimed.

Going back to the problem you mentioned in your OP ...
in fact you asked a question rather than describing the problem you face :

"What cookie is responsible for ... changing the threads that I looked into recently from bold to normal font in board view?"

The only description of the problem seemed to be "sometimes this stops working".
Is that the only issue?
That happens to be one of the 'niggles' I mentioned earlier that I've had for years (in addition to it resetting things at sometimes odd times).
It seems (to me) to be a bit drastic to delete cookies over that, bearing in mind that cookies are essentially there to 'record information', so deleting one will likely return you to an 'initial conditions' situation, rather than resolving a 'confusion'.

grumbler

Mandelbrot wrote: »

The only description of the problem seemed to be "sometimes this stops working".
Is that the only issue?

Yes. All thread titles remain in bold (except the old ones) that is very annoying and inconvenient.

It seems (to me) to be a bit drastic to delete cookies over that, bearing in mind that cookies are essentially there to 'record information', so deleting one will likely return you to an 'initial conditions' situation, rather than resolving a 'confusion'.

This is easy to do and does solve the problem without any side effects. The only inconvenience is that I have to sign in again. Of course, it's possible to locate the 'sign in' cookie instead and delete all MSE cookies except it, but it's easier to delete all and sign in.

So, I am still looking forward to getting the answer from MSE webmaster(s) or vBulletin experts to my original question. And, at the very first opportunity, I will double check whether deleting "bbthread_lastview" alone solves the problem or not.

Mandelbrot

OK. I'll just add that it's actually coding that does the changes, rather than the cookie file itself, which as I said is just a receptacle for info.

There are various apps/places on the net that will attempt to tell you what info each of the various cookies are intended to hold, but that would only be part of the story.

Incidentally, I asked (a while back) whether there is a 'MSE Webmaster' now (since the last one left) and if so who it is. I never got a reply.