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daneeko

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From: EE Universe

Joined: 2015-02-20

Posts: 2,245

Forum Discussion Bug

This bug is ANNOYING. when i see in the index Forum Discussion has new posts, i click on it, then, i see there were no new posts.

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skullz17

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Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 6,699

Re: Forum Discussion Bug

It's not exactly a bug. If you are online for a while doing nothing, all the new posts become unticked, as if you've read them. So if you stay in the index for a while, then you go to forum discussion later, you don't see the new posts because the forum has decided they're not new anymore.

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thx for sig bobithan

Different55

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Joined: 2015-02-07

Posts: 16,575

Re: Forum Discussion Bug

It's not exactly a bug. If you are online for a while doing nothing, all the new posts become unticked, as if you've read them. So if you stay in the index for a while, then you go to forum discussion later, you don't see the new posts because the forum has decided they're not new anymore.

Well, you're not wrong, but it takes 30 minutes before the forum considers you fully offline and gone (or when you log out), which is when it marks all posts up until then as read. However, there is a mod that was actually requested to be installed before that would fix this. I'd forgotten about it until now, but instead of basing what you've read and not read based on cookies and your last visited time, it stores it all in the database so that if you never read a topic, it'll never be marked as read. It also adds a button to mark all topics as read.

Should I add it to my to-do list?

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Ratburntro44

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Joined: 1970-01-01

Posts: 1,383

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Re: Forum Discussion Bug

Just keep in mind that adding more and more stuff might make the forums milliseconds slower.