How do I look at previous new posts?

[rhancock]

So I often jump onto the forum to check a subscibed thread, but I don't look at the new posts list, which is how I like to monitor the forum. But just visiting the site means the new posts list is reset. So if I visit one thread a day, then at the end of the week, "New posts" only shows me the posts since I last looked at any thread. I can see how that works, and why, but it annoys me! I'd like a work around... How do I get to look through a list of all posts say since, last Sunday?

[joe greiner]

I've been wondering the same thing myself. New Posts seems to be keyed to the "You last visited" entry. But does it mean when you last logged IN, or when you logged OUT? In case of a power failure, or connection failure, the "You last visited" value can sometimes be reset, and I've missed a few posts or threads. It'd be nice to be able to reset it to some other value. There's a VBulletin forum someplace, that might have the info we need. Gotta bail out now, though, so that's another chore for the "bucket list."

Joe

[steven]

So I often jump onto the forum to check a subscibed thread, but I don't look at the new posts list, which is how I like to monitor the forum. But just visiting the site means the new posts list is reset. So if I visit one thread a day, then at the end of the week, "New posts" only shows me the posts since I last looked at any thread. I can see how that works, and why, but it annoys me! I'd like a work around... How do I get to look through a list of all posts say since, last Sunday?

Hi there

Thread marking isn't done properly on this site, we tried changing it a couple of years ago but the community members didn't like the change, so we reverted back to the old school (very ineffective) way of marking posts as 'read'.

regards

[Andy Mac]

I've run into the same problem several times, and all I can do is log out then look up Today's Posts which is on the bar instead of New Posts.
Clumsy, but it works...although you can't respond.

Cheers

[Sturdee]

...............is log out then look up Today's Posts which is on the bar instead of New Posts................

Cheers

You don't need to log out in order to use Today's Post from the drop down bar under Quick Links.


Peter.

[rhancock]

Good on ya, Sturdee! That's a great help - at least I can skim everything posted today, but it doesn't get me posts from previous days.

[Andy Mac]

You don't need to log out in order to use Today's Post from the drop down bar under Quick Links.


Peter.

Thanks, much easier!

[Sturdee]

To make it easier still you can copy the New Post and Daily post to the desktop and add it to your favourites. This means you open up the page direct to the search result.


Peter.

[joe greiner]

"Today's Posts," however achieved, gives you the last 24 hours, even if you want more hours or fewer.

Peter (Sturdee), if I understand you correctly, adding the New Posts search results to the favourites would likely result in a box displaying "Invalid search results..." if you invoke it later enough. I've even gotten that within a single session if several new posts have been added since the first hit on "New Posts," e.g. going to a first page of hits working chronologically from the oldest. It'd be simpler if the user could adjust the TimeStamp for "You last visited" if there was a communications hiccup or other such failure in the user's computer. It just seems it would be less dodgy this way.

Perhaps I've misunderstood your suggestion, of course.

Steven, PM sent, or about to be sent.

Joe

[Sturdee]

Joe, when you put New Posts on your favourites (or the desktop) each time you click on it, it performs a new post search.

If there are new posts since you last searched and the time limit hasn't cancelled previous posts then it is updated.

If there are no new posts then the forum will tell you that and suggest to use Todays Post search.

Having it on the desktop means that IE opens up direct with the search results and whilst on the net I use it from my favourites when I transfer from another site thus each time bypassing the main page.

Also I don't have to scroll up to the top each time to get at the menu bar.


Peter.

[DJ’s Timber]

Joe, when you put New Posts on your favourites (or the desktop) each time you click on it, it performs a new post search.

Which would be this link

"https://www.woodworkforums.com/search.php?do=getnew" without the Quotation Marks

[joe greiner]

Righto, Peter and DJ. That's the same link that's displayed when the cursor hovers over the top Menu bar. I'll need to chew on this for a while (which I have just now).

It seems there are situations when both "Today's Posts" and "New Posts" are unwanted. For example, a user's local power failure or ISP hiccup lasts long enough to allow automatic LogOut from VBulletin; when the user logs in again, "New Posts" is insufficient, and "Today's Posts" is too much. OTOH, after a long absence, "New Posts" provides too much, and "Today's Posts" is too little. In either case, the user must "manually" wade through the hit list, until finding the golden moment.

User control of the "You last visited" TimeStamp could offer remedies. Of course, the TimeStamp is probably in some peculiar format; exercising user control via UserCP would likely need a calendar and time box input field, and/or a translation algorithm.

In spite of the info I PM'ed to Steven, this might be best left to the powers-that-be at VBulletin instead of individual owners.

I almost didn't post this reply. Somebody please delete all or part of it, as you see fit.

Joe

[Sturdee]

I almost didn't post this reply. Somebody please delete all or part of it, as you see fit.

Joe

Glad you did Joe for now I understand your problem.

I agree that sometimes the ability to alter the time stamp for "You last visited" would be very helpful. We'll see if Steve can do create that facility.


Peter.

[joe greiner]

Well, now I'm even more confused than before. Apparently, I logged out in one window a few hours ago, but left a remnant window by simply closing it. When I just came back, I was still logged in, which jibes with Neil's suggestion at http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=75998 But the "You last visited" entry was consistent with the "real" logout or an automatic logout. I'm thinking that "all cookies cleared" is less than 100% true. This has all been via Firefox. And to make matters worse, I also simultaneously visited via IE to retrieve a thread number (?t=nnnnn) for inclusion in a normal reply. Guess what? I was NOT logged in via IE. Firefox and IE also seem to have separate folders of "Bookmarks" and "Favorites" on my compu-duh-r. Probably separate files of cookies too, and one of them might provide the "control" I'm looking for. Oy veh!

And the frosting on the cake: I recently got an e-mail notification of a reply, even though my UserCP now has a default setting of "Do not Subscribe." Those settings were scrambled a few days ago and corrected, but I don't recall changing the Notification Type, same as now (I hope).

Joe

[steven]

And the frosting on the cake: I recently got an e-mail notification of a reply, even though my UserCP now has a default setting of "Do not Subscribe." Those settings were scrambled a few days ago and corrected, but I don't recall changing the Notification Type, same as now (I hope).

Joe

Hi Joe

If you log into your userCP you should see a 'list subscriptions' link. It will probably list a few threads you posted in while your setting was on instant. Simply 'check all' do 'delete subscription'.

regards