Forum maintenance needed?

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Forum maintenance needed?

2024-01-20 12:28 am

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.

Re: Forum maintenance needed?

Reply #1 – 2024-01-20 02:31 am

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.

Re: Forum maintenance needed?

Reply #2 – 2024-01-20 10:07 am

I had the same feeling, but I blamed my bad memory or distraction.
I'll keep an eye on it from now on.

Re: Forum maintenance needed?

Reply #3 – 2024-01-31 01:00 am

Has anyone else noticed this yet or is it just me? It seems to be getting more common.

Re: Forum maintenance needed?

Reply #4 – 2024-01-31 10:33 am

No, I don't... yet?

Re: Forum maintenance needed?

Reply #5 – 2024-01-31 09:59 pm

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

Re: Forum maintenance needed?

Reply #6 – 2024-02-04 11:12 am

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.

Re: Forum maintenance needed?

Reply #7 – 2024-03-08 05:12 pm

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)

Re: Forum maintenance needed?

Reply #8 – 2024-03-09 02:39 am

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...