Originally Posted by purpurite

The forums and internal pages are timing out. There is a setting within vBulletin that allows for how long you can look at a forum of threads marked unread before it wipes out the unread listing. This forum has them set pretty short, comparatively. I view the forums by the new threads listing, and if it's 6 or 7 pages of posts, often I won't get through all of the new posts before the timer expires and the new posts are deactivated (bolded titles to not bolded titles).

Unless there are inherent issues with a vBulletin install (if you can read this post, there almost always are not), the issues are 99.9% with the user's browser. Here's my recommendation to fix your timed out cookies:

1. Log out of the forum
2. Head to your browser settings
3. Clear all temporary files and browsing data, i.e. cookies, logins, downloads, cached pages, etc.
4. Close the browser (not really necessary, but as long as we're starting clean...)
5. Re-open the browser
6. Log back into bikeforums.net and make sure you click "Remember Me" for next time

At this point, you shouldn't have any issues with the forum settings. This is a pretty simple cure for almost all forum issues. Sometimes new browsers don't play nice with the ol' vB but more often than not, it's a user issue.

Hope this helps.

Doug