'new'
Posted by Erica
'new'
Posted by: Erica (---)
Date: November 15, 2002 10:56AM
What happened to the red "new" signs next to the topics with new posts in the "show topics" page? It only appears when you first download the page. Once you go back to the show topics page after having left it once, the new tags are no longer there. I am sad. I liked that because it indicated to me which topics had new posts. I preferred that over the show new posts button. Can you make it come back, Age?
Re: 'new'
Posted by: CowbellGuy (---)
Date: November 15, 2002 11:01AM
I didn't change anything. Still works here.
Re: 'new'
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---)
Date: November 15, 2002 11:02AM
Mine works as Erica describes.
Re: 'new'
Posted by: CowbellGuy (---)
Date: November 15, 2002 11:06AM
Try clicking "Mark All Read" on the main page once in a while.
Re: 'new'
Posted by: ugarte (63.94.240.---)
Date: November 15, 2002 11:58AM
i sometimes lose the "new" designation on the main page on all threads older than a thread that I have checked. "Show New Posts" keeps accurate info on what I have seen, though.
Re: 'new'
Posted by: jeh25 (130.132.105.---)
Date: November 15, 2002 12:01PM
Same here. just forgot to say anything...
Re: 'new'
Posted by: pfibiger (---)
Date: November 15, 2002 12:06PM
Yeah, I'm having this problem too..it's new, although it could be related to my switch to moz 1.1 from IE6.
I come to the site, all threads w/ new posts are shown w/ the 'new' flag. Once I visit one of those threads, all the rest of the new flags on the topics page is gone...however, if I go into one of the threads, individual posts still have new flags. I have used 'mark all read' a few times, which doesn't seem to do anything.
Phil
I come to the site, all threads w/ new posts are shown w/ the 'new' flag. Once I visit one of those threads, all the rest of the new flags on the topics page is gone...however, if I go into one of the threads, individual posts still have new flags. I have used 'mark all read' a few times, which doesn't seem to do anything.
Phil
Re: 'new'
Posted by: Erica (---)
Date: November 15, 2002 12:30PM
all "mark all read" does is exactly that. It marks everything as if it's been read already, in which case all the new tags disappear. I was always bewildered by that. It does that to me even if I haven't read them all. Weird...
Re: 'new'
Posted by: Erica (---)
Date: November 15, 2002 12:31PM
Ya musta done something. Because now it seems to work again.
d'oh. I take that back.
d'oh. I take that back.
Re: 'new'
Posted by: cquinn (4.19.176.---)
Date: November 15, 2002 01:37PM
Same here. The new tags are disappearing on unread threads. They sometimes still stick around even after I've read them, too, but not as often as before.
Re: 'new'
Posted by: jason (---)
Date: November 16, 2002 01:11AM
Add me to th list of those suffering from the mysterious disappearing "new"'s problem.
Re: 'new'
Posted by: CowbellGuy (---)
Date: November 18, 2002 09:24AM
The thing is, if you click "Mark all read" the database just gets the newest message and knows all previous messages have been read. Otherwise, it actually stores the numbers of each individual messsage you've read. Eventually that list could get pretty large and might cause problems. Haven't confirmed that, but it's a possibility. Anyway, I undid the thing I did for the last problem with messages showing up as new after they'd been read. I don't know if that's what caused this problem. Let me know.
EDIT: That just reintroduced the old problem and did nothing to fix this one. Guess I'll keep poking.
EDIT: That just reintroduced the old problem and did nothing to fix this one. Guess I'll keep poking.
Re: 'new'
Posted by: nshapiro (146.145.226.---)
Date: November 19, 2002 09:57AM
Try reading the threads "bottom up" - starting with the oldest thread that has a new tag. This seems to prevent the undesirable removal of the new tag from unread threads.
Re: 'new'
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---)
Date: November 19, 2002 11:50AM
Exactly right. This is a "bottoms-up" system.
Re: 'new'
Posted by: CowbellGuy (---)
Date: November 19, 2002 11:57AM
Well, it shouldn't have to be that way. There's a problem, but I haven't had time to ferret it out yet
Re: 'new'
Posted by: jeh25 (130.132.105.---)
Date: November 20, 2002 10:09AM
Yup. Bunch of old new's that i never read just popped up.
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