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metlslime Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 177 |

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:15 am Post subject: Forum Question: New Posts |

Just a simple forum question: When i see an orange folder icon for a forum, that means that there are new posts in that forum, right? But, sometimes when i click on the link to the Forum, NONE of the threads in that forum have an orange icon, so how do i know which threads have the new posts?

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Wazat Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 732 Location: Middle 'o the desert, USA |

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:58 am Post subject: Re: Forum Question: New Posts |

metlslime wrote:
Just a simple forum question: When i see an orange folder icon for a forum, that means that there are new posts in that forum, right? But, sometimes when i click on the link to the Forum, NONE of the threads in that forum have an orange icon, so how do i know which threads have the new posts?

Hi metlslime. Been a long time.
I used to get that bug with the forums too, though I don't know what I did to fix it (other than making sure I'm signed in). Have you tried clicking on the top thread to see if the last post's date is indeed since your last visit? I wonder if it's just the main page that's wigging out.
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ceriux Joined: 06 Sep 2008 Posts: 969 Location: Florida, USA |

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:23 am Post subject: |

i think that happens when you havnt logged in for a long while. i normally just look at them all then it fixes its self. _________________ QuakeDB - Quake ModDB Group

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Spirit Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 476 |

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:39 am Post subject: |

http://forums.inside3d.com/search.php?search_id=newposts is my bookmark. _________________ Quake Maps

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metlslime Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 177 |

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject: |

ah... after more experimentation i think the problem is that "new" just means "updated since your last visit" and "your last visit" changes as soon as you reload the forum page. So when you start digging into the forum, at some point it says "okay, your last visit is no longer yesterday, it is now 2 minutes ago" and since there are no posts in the last two minutes, suddenly everything becomes "not new". There are still orange icons on the front page becuase it's cached by the browser.
So it doesn't actually store a "last visited" date or "last viewed" post per-thread, it's just a single global date per user?

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