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SUJO 
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 Topic: Feedback: New Post Icon Testing
Posted: 21 October 2006 at 1:02pm |
Hello.
Since there is yet no open topic for submitting user found bugs, I am just making a post for that new "New posts" icon in forum. I am a very regular visitor of site, and I am reading all posts as the come. Now I came back to check out again if there is something new, and the new posts in forum icon said, that there are 16 new posts since my last visit (if it works that way); now when I opened up the forum for 8.x support, there was only ONE new post since my last vist... so - how is that, since I read all the posts in the forum except one...?
Anyways, that is my "finding"... otherwise keep it up!
EDIT: sorry, just read your reply in developement blog of this problem... you can remove this post
Edited by SUJO - 21 October 2006 at 1:05pm
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Posted: 21 October 2006 at 1:08pm |
Thanks, I've just posted this in the blog topic just now:-
 OK, please don't let me know that the new new post icon feature doesn't
work, it looks like in a production environment it's not running like
it did on the test server.
I
have located the course of many of the problems and it looks like it
maybe back to the drawing board for a re-write of the whole thing. Oh
well another week if development wasted 
This
has been a stumbling block for many years, but a solution will be found
(I hope). The biggest hurdle isn't actually producing the feature, but
producing it well so it doesn't eat up loads of server resources and
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Posted: 21 October 2006 at 2:24pm |
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OK, not a complete disaster, instead of appending the array of unread posts when a new post is made, it's repopulated instead. This seems to have done the trick and it appears to be working correctly now.
However, please let me know if you notice any irregularities.
Edited by -boRg- - 21 October 2006 at 2:26pm
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Posted: 21 October 2006 at 2:27pm |
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Just a quick question,
Does this work on the stickies and Announcements?
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Handyman man?
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Posted: 21 October 2006 at 2:31pm |
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I don't think there are icons in the present system to show new posts in those types of topics, but it will show on the main forum.
Version 9 will be having lots of new icons so I can look at new icons for that type of thing then.
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Posted: 21 October 2006 at 2:33pm |
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I actually meant on hovering over the current icon for stickies or announcements, will it show the unread posts within them?
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Posted: 21 October 2006 at 2:38pm |
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Not at the moment but it can easily be added, so I will look into it.
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Posted: 21 October 2006 at 2:46pm |
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It's been done on the main topic page, I will also update the active topics, search page, etc. to display the same when you hover the mouse over the icon.
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