All Threads Marked As Read!?

FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
edited July 2005 in Community
Why is it that if I'm on the site for like 15 minutes, and I open a new Instance of IE, all of the threads get marked as read and I can't, for example, go to the last viewed reply (cause all the "down arrow" buttons are gone) and then have to wade through all of the replies to get to one I haven't yet seen? This seems to be a board specific setting as it doesn't happen on any other site or forum I'm a member of. That said, I really don't care why it happens, but rather, can it be changed?

Just a Bit_h. Sorry!

Flint

Comments

  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited July 2005
    I know that if you are not active in like 15 min you are shown as offline and anything that was "New" to you is no longer new.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    flint: this has been a problem for a long time with any vbulletin forum that I visit as well.

    As soon as you load a page, a 15 minute timer starts. If you don't do anything else within those 15 minutes, the next time a page is loaded, it will consider you to have read everything from the last session.

    At my house, it's a big no-no to open up daddy's firefox on his computer, since it will most likely mark all posts as read :D

    This problem will be fixed in vb 3.5, which will be out soon. After we have tested it and customized it for our site, shorty will be rolling it out. vb3.5 uses a database to keep track of read and unread posts instead of cookies. Problem solved.
  • FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
    edited July 2005
    Cool! And thanks for the timely and to the point replies!!

    Flint
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    THANK GOD.... I hate that darn timer...
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    I've been customising it to work how we need it to. Because our CMS (front page) is integrated so tightly with VBulletin, some careful testing & things has to be done first :)

    When VB3.5 is gold, it'l be here :)
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited July 2005
    I would rather have it this way, or maybe a longer timer. I dont read every thread in this forum. So if thats the way its going to change then it looks like threads will still be "new" to me even on my next visit or a visit a month from the time that post was created. I dont want that. Thats stupid! Maybe have it reset each day or something but if there is not some type of way to clear posts the "New Threads" search is going to get longer and longer and longer......IE more server queries and crap.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    I believe that the new VBulletin will still clear all "New Posts" if you select "Mark Forums Read". If you go through and read all the ones you want, click "Mark as Read" then they're gone. I would rather have that then have some, predetermined, timer go off and clear them for me.

    There are times that I start to browse the forums then I get called away. I come back and all the new treads have been marked "Read" so I have to try to see what I missed. Also... I leave for 3 or 4 days and come back... I'd have 100 threads to read. That could take a few hours and I might not have that time all at once. I could read a few, come back, read a few more, come back, read the rest.

    Last... I start to read the treads then have to go to work and want to continue reading where I left off...

    Right now... all of those things are not easily possible. I REALLY look forward to the new VBulletin. :thumbsup:
  • FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
    edited July 2005
    Ditto!
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