So am I just mistaken on the [+] [-] thing? Does that not exist? [right][snapback]46626[/snapback][/right]
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject:
It used to be there in the IPB1.x version of the forum. I think its good that its gone because it got abused too much >.< Eg. One person with a n00b'ish post would get -'ed from 10 people who read/responded to the post
Well... I have been hanging around... but post count doesn't increase much... Oh well, i'm not much involved with the whole perl coding and i mostly reply in general forums, so i'm not complaining.
Maybe in 10 years i can put my title there , something like -The patient one- LOL.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:59 pm Post subject:
QUOTE(ohsmitt @ Mar 8 2005, 08:58 AM)
Yea, that post was probably a bad example.
So am I just mistaken on the [+] [-] thing? Does that not exist? [right][snapback]46626[/snapback][/right]
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Well... I have been hanging around... but post count doesn't increase much... . [right][snapback]46635[/snapback][/right]
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I don't know if anybody else has noticed, but the new forum doesn't seem to do as well with cookies.
For example, with the old forum, if you go away from the forum for a few hours, all the "new posts" you just saw aren't counted as new, and when you come back later, the "new posts" are all actually the NEW ones that you haven't seen before.
But with this one, I'd read the posts at like 7:00 PM one night, and check again from school at 7:00 AM the next morning, and half of the new posts are the same posts that I saw the night before. The old forum didn't do that. :blink: _________________ Current Site (2008) http://www.cuvou.com/
Cer, it now shows active topics of the day it seems, look in the bottom right and you can select the time period...Doesnt seem to be a setting that marks its as read and then you dont see it in view new posts.
Cer, it now shows active topics of the day it seems, look in the bottom right and you can select the time period...Doesnt seem to be a setting that marks its as read and then you dont see it in view new posts. [right][snapback]46987[/snapback][/right]
I always click the "View New Posts," not "Active Topics" - and last time I checked, "View New Posts" uses cookies or something to remember which posts you've seen or not (like if Bot-Depot would have a mySQL error when I'm halfway done reading the new posts, and then the error gets resolved within a half hour and I return, all those new posts are "New" again--but after enough time, it thinks I've viewed all of them).
And this one isn't as bright. _________________ Current Site (2008) http://www.cuvou.com/
Bah, that doesnt work..... You'll have to click the "mark all topics as read" when you finished going through them... [right][snapback]46996[/snapback][/right]
I do....
And immediately after I click that and then click "View New Posts", it gives the error of "Try and broaden your search criteria. If you were searching for new posts since your last visit, it is possible that there are none to show."
Yet 12 hours later, if I go to the site from a different computer, half of the New Posts were ones I'd already seen (or ones I last posted in). It's like "New post: last poster was Cer" -- does it have common sense? If I was the last poster, it shouldn't be a new post! ).
Oh well. It's not such a big deal, I'll just make sure I'm the last poster each time I go through checking for new posts, so then when I'm in the new posts again I'll know where to stop. _________________ Current Site (2008) http://www.cuvou.com/
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:33 pm Post subject:
QUOTE(Cer @ Mar 18 2005, 04:45 AM)
QUOTE(Dazzy @ Mar 18 2005, 02:25 AM)
what is you're homepage set to? what url?
Bah, that doesnt work..... You'll have to click the "mark all topics as read" when you finished going through them... [right][snapback]46996[/snapback][/right]
I do....
And immediately after I click that and then click "View New Posts", it gives the error of "Try and broaden your search criteria. If you were searching for new posts since your last visit, it is possible that there are none to show."
Yet 12 hours later, if I go to the site from a different computer, half of the New Posts were ones I'd already seen (or ones I last posted in). It's like "New post: last poster was Cer" -- does it have common sense? If I was the last poster, it shouldn't be a new post! ).
Oh well. It's not such a big deal, I'll just make sure I'm the last poster each time I go through checking for new posts, so then when I'm in the new posts again I'll know where to stop. [right][snapback]47000[/snapback][/right]
If it uses cookies like you expect then of course if you use a different computer it is not going to know which posts you have seen. I general just use the recent posts button and look for that little orange triangle to show which ones i havn't read. I've never had real good expereince with the show new posts link on this version or the previous one. _________________ Eric256
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Yeah i think they've meant it to be like that, it shows the active topics of the day and highlights the posts you havent read with the more solid folder icon.
The problem is that it does show the little orange icon next to each topic as if I hadn't seen it yet.
And the old forums, if you are interrupted or use another computer, then after about a half hour it wipes out the idea of you not seeing those posts yet, and would say "There's no new posts!" from a different (or the same) computer.
For example, if there's 50 new posts, and I get through 25 when Bot-Depot has some server issue.... if the issue gets resolved soon enough and I return, all 50 of them are "You haven't seen this yet!" type of status. But after enough time passes and I return, it says there's no new posts.
And that's how it used to operate with different computers. If I went through and read the new posts from one computer, then immediately went to another, all those posts would still be "new" -- but after a certain amount of time (like a half hour or so), the second computer would be telling me there's no new posts here.
And so 12 hours later, on a second computer, half of the "You haven't read this yet!" posts are the ones from 12 hours before.
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, something like -The patient one- LOL.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:54 pm Post subject: 
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