Seriously?!
John Stevenson said:
Force-refresh has dealt with this for me, as it seems to be a browser-side problem rather than a server-side one. I was able to see stage 5's live page 8 while a colleague was seeing stage 5's, so the server was definitely delivering the right page. Wrong pages can also get stuck your ISP's proxy cache too.
However, we are looking at a better fix which we hope to have in place next week.
Well, then maybe I'll check back again next week. I was almost ready to congratulate you on putting a quick fix in place...you made it all the way to page 22 of 26 today. Then I clicked "Next" and I was reading Stage 5. So, I went back and tried to jump ahead...only to read stage details from Stage 4. Force refresh does nothing. Emptying my cache does nothing. That changing browsers doesn't help may mean that it's the proxy server cache. I have to grant you that possibility, but a three-day old page? Proxy cache should have long since emptied that out. And, mind you, nothing of this nature has ever happened with another website...ever.
However, there's another theory: I still can't read the details, but I'm assuming page 23 is about when Evans attacked the peloton. This leads me to believe that it's a server loading issue on your end, as that's just about the point when everyone reading your live coverage would be force refreshing their own pages in an effort to get the latest updates as fast as they can. Hell, I do it, too, so I can hardly blame them. I don't want to be that person, as I know you're just trying to get the site up to date, and there are some things that I really like about the new version, but it worked fine on the old version of your site. Along with your great reporters, your live coverage was superior
becuase you could do that and get the latest updates more quickly.
Maybe I'll check back next week...we'll see. Maybe you need to consider a whole new live coverage scheme instead of relying on your users force refreshing...