Refreshing "View New Posts"

[Mactruck]

Being someone who reads alot of TDR posts at my work computer I had trained myself to use the "View new posts" feature. The reason why is that I would read three or four posts then go back doing work stuff or be called away from my desk. It would drive me nuts because being away from my desk for 15 minutes would get rid of the new posts. This is how the program is supposed to work I know, So I used the View new posts feature and would read it throughout the day to satisfy my TDR addiction while still doing my job To update it I would hit my refresh button. and also get the new posts that were posted in my absence.



The new quirk in this software is

#1: I can hit refresh and it just refreshes the page, It does not add any of the new posts that were made in my sometimes brief but often long absence. I now have to open a new page and hit view new posts to get what I missed.



#2 After about a half hour of inactivity on the view new posts page I have loaded, I would hit the "next" button to go to the next page after reading and it would tell me there is nothing there. Search came up empty. But a half hour ago I had 10 pages of new posts. But I've only had a chance to read about 5 pages of them. and page 6 - 10 have now vanished.



Not nitpicking Steve I know this is a tremendous undertaking. I was here when you added the last update and felt bad for you then. I didn't know if there is some sort of search bug. I read through the bug update and didn't see any thing about this listed.



Any thoughts? I'm probably as clear as molasses.

 

[SRadke]

I just found this post via a search becasue I logged in today before it was posted and it didn't show up for the very same reasons he describes above. I was actually doing a search for this because I was going to ask about it but wanted to be sure I wasn't "beating a dead horse".



Here's my example:

With the old software I could log in and look at the "new posts". After I scanned through the 8-10 pages of posts, read a few, and replied to a couple I would get to the end. Then I go back to page one to see what came through while I was reading for the last 15 minutes. With the new software page 1 has the same list when I go back to it. Some of the points have updated, for example one of the posts on the first page may have a diffrent person's name for the last response (becasue he replied while I was peruzing) but it doesn't update the date/time order of the posts. I have to go back to the "view new posts" option to get that.



That's not real clear is it? Thanks Steve for all you do and any help you can provide.



-Scott

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

What you have to do is do another "view new posts" instead of refreshing - it will accomplish the exact same thing. The way this software works is that when you do a view new posts it builds up a search table with all the threads in that search. You are then viewing a table of those threads. When there are new posts added to those posts you will see them because the link to the post information is live (ie last post). By doing this they sped things up and reduced the load on the server. With the old way any time you changed the page the system was doing a new complete search (query). This way there's no new search - it's simply loading the table. Hope that made sense.



I did the same thing. What I do now is I do a view new posts and go through everything. Once I get to the end I do another view new posts and catch all the new stuff. I'll have to check to see how long your "search" remains in the database - maybe I can extend that some. My guess is that if you are away for a certain period of time (probably 15 minutes - which is what most of the timeouts are based on) that it deletes the search table. This is what would have caused your page 6-10 problem.

 

[SRadke]

Makes perfect sense Steve. Thanks for clearing that up.



-Scott

 

[Mactruck]

I'll have to check to see how long your "search" remains in the database - maybe I can extend that some. My guess is that if you are away for a certain period of time (probably 15 minutes - which is what most of the timeouts are based on) that it deletes the search table. This is what would have caused your page 6-10 problem.

Thanks Steve, problem number one is solved. As for number 2... ...

It makes sense that this version deletes the search table after a while. If and when you figure out a way around it let me know. I think this is going to come up more and more as the site gets bigger and bigger. WHY? cause it would take me hours to read ALL the new posts this site generates after say - a weekend.



Again - Great Job.

 

[moel]

you may want to unsubscribe to some of the forums to shorten your view posts since last visit

 

[jcarey]

Steve,

I'm still having an intermittent problem when I access the TDR. Anywhere from 12 - 70, or more, posts show available for viewing, but when I select 'view new posts', I get the message saying that there is nothing to view. Other than that, no problems, great site!



Thanks,

Jim

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Where are you getting the 12-70 or more posts show available from? What page are you coming to first - the front page ( https://www.turbodieselregister.com ), the forums ( https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums ), or a different page? Do you log out every time and have to log back in when you come back to the site and if you do what page are you loggin back in on. This will help me narrow down the problem if there is one.