Need technical help with a DU glitch

[Thirties Child]

When I click on a DU thread, I can't get back to where I started, instead takes me back to Wed Oct 15, 2014, 10:21 PM.

I seldom post but lurk and read several times a day. i have actually been here since Wes Clark dropped out in 2004, had to start over when we moved, got a new computer, new server and I simultaneously forgot my password.

Thirties Child Who is Technically Challenged

[MineralMan]

1. What platform? What Browser? What Operating System?

You haven't provided enough information. Start, though, by exiting DU and closing your browser. Open the browser again an return to DU. Try that. If it doesn't work, give us the information asked for in my title.

[bigwillq]

2. Try the back button

the arrow all the way to the left on the top of your screen.


Or you could try to scroll on the way down the page.

There's these options: Click on one of them to bring you back "home" or to the "latest threads"

DU Home | Latest Threads | Greatest Threads | Forums & Groups | My Subscriptions | My Posts

Not sure if this helps. Hope you figure it out.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Rebooting solves it for me

I've had that problem occur when I'm on a DU page and I leave the computer for a while.

For expert advice you can go to the Computer Help and Support Group:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1095

[Thirties Child]

4. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I rebooted and everything is fine. Thanks for the advice.

I had to ask Mr. Thirties what my browser and operating system were -hard to believe that we've had computers since 1984 and I was once technically literate. Our first was a RadioShack Tandy, then a Morrow for CPM. We had a very early Apple, maybe a second generation Mac, and so on and so on and so on. Mr. Thirties wrote a computer column and I even reviewed software for him. I think I reviewed something like 25 word processers - loved WordStar, loved Xywrite even more. Mr. Thirties wrote a column about Bill Gates and Microsoft in Biblical style. It's still available on humor sites. Thus Spake Gates if anyone is interested.

[pinboy3niner]

5. You're welcome

If you want to avoid rebooting, I'd guess that clearing your cache might also work. You might or might not also have to log off and back on to DU, I don't know--I'm strictly an amateur. You're far more computer literate than I am.