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| Posted by: madaise Mar 17 2003, 06:15 AM |
| TLCdad... I came yesterday with every intention of posting to the new topics... but due to R/L, I had to leave before I could even read anything. I knew there were new topics, as I saw a few of the "new" icons twirling.. when I came this morning, it had marked all the forums read. Is there any way to prevent it from assuming I've read these topics? I'd rather have to manually mark them read (preferably in each forum, but you've mentioned you didn't think that was possible quite yet) than to have them all marked read when I didn't get a chance to even open one of the forums. ::hoping this made sense:: |
| Posted by: HomeIsCool Mar 17 2003, 07:16 AM |
| Judi ... I wonder if it has to do with new posts THAT DAY. Because I came, read a couple of posts, left and came back and things were still spinning. But, I know I had come out and there were new posts and I had not been out in a few days ... and no spinning things. I do agree ... annoying to not be able keep things "new" when you have haven't read the forum yet. Hmmmm Barbara |
| Posted by: TLCDad Mar 17 2003, 09:59 AM |
| I'll look into it. But what might help; there is a link after the listing of forums on the main page title "Todays Active topics" this should show you all topics with activity today in case you missed something. Also once you go to that page you can change it to show posts since yesterday or any day in the past. Also the "My Assistant" link at the top of every page might come in handy. After 15 minutes of inactivity from a visit it will mark all topics read but if you return within those 15 minutes they will still be new to you. I think this is even how the popular vBulletin software does it. I will do some reasearch and see if I can come up with a better solution. I know in the past forum software would keep track of each topic you read but that caused the forum to be slow and forum websites getting banned from shared hosting servers (due to to much cpu resource) once the forum got popular. Maybe I will put the link "Todays active topics" up on the header somewhere as well as where it currently is. Think that would help? |
| Posted by: TLCDad Mar 17 2003, 11:45 AM |
| I made a link to "Today's Topics" in the second navigation bar at the top of all pages. Let me know if this helps. Thanks! |
| Posted by: madaise Mar 17 2003, 08:25 PM |
| Ahh, I forget about the links up there... I am just not use to this layout yet. Thanks for adding that in and for reminding me! I will definitely make use of it. |
| Posted by: MommyToAshley Mar 28 2003, 08:05 PM |
 Bumping for new members... I think this is a great way to see what posts are new to you. Enjoy! |