Extend the recent posts

[HeXp£Øi±]

Recent posts dissapear too quickly. Why not extend the recent link to include all active threads within atleast the last 8-12 hours. By recent i mean the View new posts link.
Please if anyone agrees speak up. Remember, your silence is why you now have bush for president. No excuses.

 

[Luis G]

new posts should show threads you haven't read, i dont' think there's a way to extend the period of time, unless you "unread" threads

 

[PT]

No, but I have signed on just before leaving work, and didn't have time to actually read them all, and when I get home, they are all marked as "read". Just an annoyance, IMO, because I don't think I'd like the time thing.

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

New posts should show all new posts within every thread in a given time period.

 

[Luis G]

that period of time is relative, and it is considered since your last visit (session).

i was on vacations for about 2-3 weeks, and it showed all the threads made in that period of time.

 

[Luis G]

bummer.........i was talking about the new posts indicators in each thread.

just browsed with the new posts, it showed all threads in which last poast was made today or yesterday.

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

Then something screwy is going on here. I'm using Mozilla and there is nothing wrong with my cookies. Yet every time i come back here the new posts link only shows everything within the past couple of hours so i've had to seek out respones. Hmmm

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

If it was every new post since my last visit that would be perfect!

 

[Luis G]

using netscape 6.2.3, never had a problem with cookies.

although, i never log out of the site, since i'm the only one that uses this browser.

 

[PT]

If it was every new post since my last visit that would be perfect!

I'm pretty sure that's what I get.

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

I'm not having any problems with cookies either. I get the same thing in all three browsers i use.

 

[ris]

i find that if i pop back then i see all threads as unread. like putertutor, it can be annoying to find that the visit resets the threads, even if i've not actually read them. but that should a lesson to me - read all threads!!

 

[samcurry]

HeXp£Øi±
Im looking into it but i havent found a hack/mod on it yet. not sure if its something that can be changed. ?(

 

[fury]

The way that the sessions system works kind of makes it near impossible to set your cookie to never automatically time out, except with a complete rewrite of the whole thing. That's probably why no hacks have been made to do that, because it requires you to have almost professional PHP scripting experience.

 

[samcurry]

well that leaves me out

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

I enjoy this website therefor i'd like to see it become as efficiant as possible. The algorithm the new topics link uses is totally inefficient. Example. I came here this morning and clicked on new topics, after clicking on a few of the new threads/posts and clicking on new topics again some of the new ones began to dissapear. I started a thread last night entitled 'The messanger'. There were twelve responses to it that i had not yet seen yet it dissapeared off my screen. I hate to bring up other websites but i think JJR512 has got it just right. It shows every thread last responded to in perfect order. Hopefully you can find someone who can help resolve this issue.

 

[Luis G]

weird, it always shows it right here

 

[fury]

OK, I finally got around to working on the recent posts section. I've set the expiry time to 0 (never expire, I think...), so let me know if it works.

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

I like this better already.

 

[fury]