Hi all,
I don't know about you, but usually when I access the forum I'll right click on the blue quaver pair image that indicates new posts in a forum and open in a new tab.
This has always opened up a list of topics with new posts that I can now right click and open in new tabs. When I've read each new post I close the relative tabs.
However, recently when I right click on the blue quaver pair on the front forum page it will sometimes take me to a tab that says there are no new posts and I have the option to click a link to open a page with ALL the unread posts. This seems to take me to all the new posts.
While this isn't really any burden for me, I can't help wondering if the forum database may need some maintenance*. Especially as I recently discovered a some posts that I didn't get an "unread posts" indication for. I would have remembered these particular ones as they related to user object updates.
Has anyone else noticed this or should I look for something local to my PC?
* I suspect a re-index would be in the offing.
Hmmm . . . I haven't noticed this behavior and all seems to work for me. I'll keep and eye out for this over the coming week to see if the behavior changes.
I had the same feeling, but I blamed my bad memory or distraction.
I'll keep an eye on it from now on.
Has anyone else noticed this yet or is it just me? It seems to be getting more common.
No, I don't... yet?
To be honest, I don't notice this because I use an RSS aggregator to check for new posts on the forum. The software that this forum uses has a fairly nice RSS feature set, and will show both new topics as well as new replies to a topic. However, it only does so on public subforums.
For the record, this is the RSS URL that I use:
https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?action=.xml;type=rss2;limit=5
Sorry to be late to the party. Busy week.
I haven't noticed Lawrie's issue either. I just single click the New Posts button in the menu bar, and when the window opens, I just click the message I want to read. If there's no fresh ones, I see the link for all unreads, but I haven't looked closely to see if there are some there that should have showed up as a fresh message.
A-ha!
If you replay to a message in a thread then the blue icon disappears, even if there are more unread messages in the same area!
(Just happened)
Hi Flurmy,
yes, I pretty sure that's actually the way it's always been. My problem is clicking the blue icon and it takes me to a page that says there are no unread posts. In spite of the fact that I haven't been in the thread or board...