Feedback: New Post Icon Testing

To calculate unread posts, like before, the date of your last visit is used.

This is updated every 3 minutes with a new date (3 minutes saves on costly database writes).

You may find that you need to leave the board for slightly longer than just closing and opening your browser.

This is more to do with how the language file is setout as the present language file has:-

Topic [No New Posts]

I would need to split the two up so that it can be dynamically set in the file so that it displays [x new posts] or [no new posts]

Hopefully most of the bugs have been ironed out, I've also had to switch from using session variables to use application variables linked to the forums own session system to store the values, otherwise if you close the browser and then come back a few minutes later all the posts will show again as not being read. By using application variables piggy backing on the forum own session system your browser will remember the settings for upt 20 minutes after you last activity, so you can close your browser and come back within 20 minutes and all your session data is remembered.


Edited by -boRg- - 21 October 2006 at 6:34pm

The new post icon looks  like:-

Open Forum [new posts]

If you hover the mouse over any of these icons next to forums or topics it will show you how many unread posts there are in that forum or topic.