Go to unread post

[John - K5AWO]

Steve,



I am curious as to why the link to Go to first unread post shows for some threads but not others?



I have posted in the caTCHER ecm (Marco's aka MAD) thread, have subscribed to the thread, and it still will not show the link.



This is occuring on roughly half of the threads that I participate in.

 

[Bill Lins]

I've often wondered the same thing.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

The go to first unread post feature works off of your last login date/time. It works off of a 15 minute window. If you go away from the site for 15 minutes that is now your last login time. Any threads with posts since that last login time will show the unread posts link and clicking on that will take you to the first post made after that last login time.

 

[John - K5AWO]

Unfortunately Steve, it isn't working that way for me.



But I will start keeping a log to compare apples to apples.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

John, if you look at the list of threads you'll notice that the first ones listed will have the unread message link and at some point they'll stop and none below that will have it. Look at the last reply date and time for the first post that doesn't have the link - that'll be the last time you were at the site and what your last login time was set to. Say a reply was made yesterday morning and you came to the site last night but never read that thread, now you come to it tonight - your last login time is set for when you last did something on the site last night so that thread will not have the unread message link even though you never read it. There is no way for the site to keep track of 21,000 members * 870,000 posts to know whether you've read it or not. It doesn't matter whether you've read the posts or not - just whether you've visited the site. What happens to a lot of people is that they set the forums as their home page, so whenever they open a browser their last login time gets reset. You can also look on the main forum page and in the upper right corner above the forum list it tells you when your last visit was - that is the date and time used for the unread link - any thread with a post after that date and time will have the link.

 

[dremelts]

Steve,



Just curious about the last login date/time. Is that information kept on the server or is it in a cookie. There have been times when, for whatever reason, I have lost my connection to the site while viewing new posts since last login and then when I reconnect the counter is reset and I only see the posts that were submitted within the last few minutes. It would be nice to be able to manually change my last login date/time to avoid this.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

It's kept on the server in the user database. I'm looking into the feasibility of implementing a way for users to be able to manually set a last login time.

 

[Bob Wagner]

oldbut good