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ohiopbx 
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Posted: 09 August 2007 at 7:44pm |
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Borg, one of my members brought up a good feature that he sees on other forums and i was wondering if you would incorporate anything like it. Here it is.
Lets say there is a hot topic with 300 posts, and when the user comes back the "Active Topics" indicates there are 320 posts. Well the user can only go to the 1st post or the last post. Not to just the beginning of the 20 he did not read. It makes sense to me to have a button to go right to the beginning of the 20 you have not read within the 320...make sense?
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Posted: 10 August 2007 at 1:14am |
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It makes sense, but its not possible. The reason why its not possible is because the forum does not record and save what threads/topics have been viewed. So once the member comes back, there is nothing to tell the forum how threads/topics he read last time.
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billd3
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Posted: 10 August 2007 at 2:06pm |
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SMF forums does it,
the amceaglenest ( http://forums.amceaglenest.com ) does it.
I love that feature in their forums.
I can go and see or start reading where I left off, not just the last or latest post.
It places a small graphic word "New" next to the topic and if you click that, it takes you to the first post you have not read or viewed, or all that is new since your last visit.
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ohiopbx
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Posted: 10 August 2007 at 2:28pm |
 billd3 wrote:
SMF forums does it,
the amceaglenest ( http://forums.amceaglenest.com ) does it.
I love that feature in their forums.
I can go and see or start reading where I left off, not just the last or latest post.
It places a small graphic word "New" next to the topic and if you click that, it takes you to the first post you have not read or viewed, or all that is new since your last visit.
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yeah, thats exaclty why he suggested it. I think it would be a great enhancement.
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Scotty32
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Posted: 10 August 2007 at 4:15pm |
MadDog wrote:
It makes sense, but its not possible. The reason why its not possible is because the forum does not record and save what threads/topics have been viewed. So once the member comes back, there is nothing to tell the forum how threads/topics he read last time.
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you *could* store the last post ID in the cookie, but thats not a 100% complete solution
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 10 August 2007 at 4:57pm |
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Placing the data in cookies is not good, could you imagine how big the cookies would get!! and remember a cookie needs to do a round robin trip to the server and back for each HTTP connection which can be 100's on just one page.
The way to do it is to base it on the last visit date of the user the same as is used to display the number of unread posts in a forum or topic, and also used for active topics etc.
You just need to find the last post in a topic based on the last visit date, if the post date is newer, then the post is new since the users last visit, combine this with the array already used to display the number of unread posts in topics and forums and it should be quite accurate and update in real-time.
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 14 August 2007 at 1:11pm |
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Thought this was such a good idea and because the forum already displays in real-time the number of unread posts in each forum and topic (by hovering the mouse over the forum/topic icon) , the foundation for this was already done.
Presently testing this on this forum;
Under the new unread post system, unread posts will display a star icon on them inplace of the blue bullet icon at the top of each post, so you can easly see which posts are yet to be read.
The 'View Last Post' grey '>' icon next to forum and topics will be displayed as a 'View Unread Post' icon '>' in a yellow colour for topics and forums that contain new posts, clicking on this icon will take you to the first unread post in the topic it relates to.
Edited by -boRg- - 14 August 2007 at 1:16pm
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billd3
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Posted: 14 August 2007 at 1:28pm |
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WOW! What a great guy!
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