It may be something with my new internet connection, as I have seen some odd behavior from a few sites, though generally speaking it's been fine. Plus, I had been logged out from both SE sites (and maybe So) & chat from a friend's house.
well, your avatar is put there when the page first loads. If you become logged out after that the avatar will still be there, but the ajax won't be you.
@Marc, it hasn't been chat-related but fyi-ish, but there have been more than a few times where I will be logged in on the parent site (can refresh, can view my activity, can view mod stuff), but trying the same on a linked meta won't work (and even the auto-login won't kick in until I go to the login page).
This is really starting to annoy me.
I really needed a question answered. I offered all of my reputation and got a lot of answers. The thing is though no body could answer it. Everybody was wrong.
The cause of the problem was some sort of freak server issue which was entirely remedied when I sw...
@balpha (I believe) In the transcript, the rollover for the different 'activity blocks' doesn't work unless you're on the right hand side - I suspect on the right of the block containing the times. In FF3.6.9. Very nice feature, btw