majorgeeks website not refreshing

Today I realized that when I went to the main page at www.majorgeeks.com the page was still showing software from 5-6-14. I refreshed the page (F5) and it updated. This is using Google Chrome.
I tried it from several other PCs from Chrome and got the same result. The page loads from cache until it you manually refresh it. It works fine from Firefox and IE (but who uses IE?).
Anyone know of a setting in Chrome that would cause this on a single website?

 

I had the same problem a few days ago in FF. MG's loaded to the previous day and I had to refresh to bring up the current day's software titles. I deleted the old bookmark and bookmarked MG's again from the current day's page. I haven't had a problem since.

 

FYI, just chiming in with the same issue on my machine. I am running FF 29.0 on a Linux system (Ubuntu 12.04), and my browser is also loading the page from 5-6-14 when I pull up that bookmark. I just assumed that some site maintenance was being performed on the main page.

I find it interesting that different users, with different OS, and different browsers all load the SAME dated page from 5-6-14. I'm not complaining, as I can refresh and get updated info. Just passing on clues for troubleshooting if you're looking for that type of info.

P.S. The support forums work just fine, as they always have. Seems to be limited to the main page only, FWIW.

 

Same issue. Firefox 29.0.1 on Win 7.
I deleted all majorgeeks.com cookies through the Tools > Options > Privacy dialogs, then quit and reloaded the browser.
The main page was still May 6, 2014.
Of course refresh worked OK.

 

It's not a problem David, as I can hit refresh & it's all good. And since I use Linux, the main page isn't really of any interest to me.

It just caught my eye that 2-3 of the other folks in this thread are all experiencing the same issue with a 5-6-14 page. What are the chances that 3 strange people, using at least 2 different OS, and apparently 3 different browsers have all experienced the same page date being cached, with all of us able to fix that isssue with a simple refresh. Something obviously happened on May 6, or perhaps May 7, to cause this. The troubleshooter in me wants to know what that could possibly be. I didn't know if providing my information would cause you to think of something that changed on either of those days, but I wanted to provide it simply for your awareness. Maybe at a later date it will be helpful information; maybe it was just wasted bits/bytes/bandwith. It's okay, it isn't critical.

The pragmatist in me knows that it's quicker & easier to hit refresh and solve bigger problems in the world. Thanks for being proactive with your responses though! It's nice to know the guy running the show is paying attention to the constituents, and it is certainly appreciated! THANK YOU!

 

I think you are probably correct. FWIW, I refreshed my browser this morning, after reading your post, and walked away from this machine for a bit. Seeing your e-mail notification of thread activity, I logged back on and...tada...page is displaying May 10, as expected.

I'll let you know if tomorrow's browsing reverts to May 6 cache, just for the knowledge of it. Another potential explanation MIGHT be that Firefox for Linux was just updated to version 29.0 this week, perhaps on Monday or Tuesday(?). Perhaps FF 29.0 pulled something forward from the cache settings of the "older" version. Then again, what are the chances that Chrome and IE11 did the same thing on the same day. Although not "probable", it is still "possible", I guess.

It only takes each of us less than 1 second to hit refresh. Personally, I'd rather you allocate your administrative efforts to the myriad of other issues involved in running a site of this magnitude. That isn't my decision to make, but I wouldn't be upset, and I'd certainly understand if other activities were a higher priority! ;-)

 

FYI, I think I can confirm your suspicion of browser cache issue. After having refreshed/reloaded the MG home page on Saturday, the correct page has been shown yesterday and today (May 11 and May 12, respectively) with no issues.

For those affected, a simple browser "reload page" should fix the issue in FF. Worst case, deletion of cookies and tmp files should also address the problem. IMO, this can probably be marked as "solved"? Thanks for the help David!

 

I was having the same problem the other day and just thought it was my cache so deleted to the "beginning of time" lol in Chrome and also removed all temp files but I still had to press F5 to refresh the main page. I was going to look at it again today but all is well and then I saw this thread so I thought I would add my .02c.
BTW at home I have an i7 980x and use Win 7 with all latest updates, for browsers I use Chrome and IE10.
Plus yesterday at work I had the same issue on the server and also on my workstation but didn't do anything as was too busy. The server is an i7 950 running Win 7 and browser is IE10 and the workstation is an i5 quadcore with Win 7 and IE10 as well as Chrome.

@CP throwing the kitchen sink at it seems to have done the trick for me so thanks for that :-D:cool
I'll be interested if it is fixed for everyone