[Coleman]

Sometimes when I read threads with new posts in them, I close my browser and say...10mins later check back to the site. It'll still say that there are new posts in the thread even though there really weren't any new posts since I visited. Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me?

[[DAS REICH] Blitz]

same thing happens with me, but I thought it was just my browser.

[geRV]

Same here, also happened with the older site. There was an option to "mark all topics read" so if you did that and came back and refreshed it would show new posts in threads. This layout doesn't seem to have it.

[rudedog]

Originally Posted by elstatec

rude can you put the intro/sig under offtopic?

Good call fixed

Originally Posted by Coleman

Sometimes when I read threads with new posts in them, I close my browser and say...10mins later check back to the site. It'll still say that there are new posts in the thread even though there really weren't any new posts since I visited. Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me?

Let me see, I seem to remember that I could set it via cookies or db. It should be db and not cookies. with cookies if you delete or clear them after exiting your browser then all threads would go back to default.

will check that and get back to everyone.

[rudedog]

OK everyone I found it. here is a description of the settings

This option controls how threads and forums are marked as read.

1. Inactivity/Cookie Based - once a user has been inactive for a certain amount of time (the value of the session timeout option) all threads and forums are considered read. Individual threads are marked as read within a session via cookies.
   
   This option is how all versions of vBulletin before 3.5 functioned.
2. Database (no automatic forum marking) - this option uses the database to store thread and forum read times. This allows accurate read markers to be kept indefinitely. However, in order for a forum to be marked read when all threads are read, the user must view the list of threads for that forum.
   
   This option is more space and processor intensive than inactivity-based marking.
3. Database (automatic forum marking) - this option is the same as a previous option, but forums are automatically marked as read when the last new thread is read.
   
   This is the most usable option for end users, but most processor intensive.

It was marked cookie based but I changed it to #3, so by today forward your reads should stick.

Also you can mark all thread / posts read by using either two links.
1) "quick link" in the menu under the "welcome (your user name)" upper right hand corner.
2) "forum links" or something to that effect in the same spot when in a general section of the forums.

Both these links give you a wide verity of options and features.

Please keep these types of things coming. vB is great but there's about 1000 options to set vs phpBB's 3

[rudedog]

Also I'm going to try and work some more on the theme today. What turned into a 3 comp days off to running up to a local convention center to do a last minute show, through a monkey wrench into the time I was gong to spend on the back end of the forums.

If not today, I'm taking Fri, Mon-Tues off to get some things done.

[geRV]

[BlackJackal]

edit:nvm

[Milla]

Good stuff

[Nyck]

is it possible to send some of the stickies out to pasture...there are just WAY too many IMO up top

[mr.miyagi]

Originally Posted by Nyck

is it possible to send some of the stickies out to pasture...there are just WAY too many IMO up top

I say the:

Sausage thread
Girly thread
What are you listening to thread

Can all be released happily.

[Nyck]

I was thinking desktop, donations, girly and friends forever.

both are pretty low traffic or run its course i mean the only time desktop is updated is when gerv changes whatever videogame screen shot he has as his wallpaper and prior to that there was a 2 month layoff on that thread before forte "revived" it

[Coleman]

lmao nyck....so true.
<3 Gervis

[geRV]

So true, funny as ive not had a game desktop for about a year.

[Coleman]

Originally Posted by geRV

So true, funny as ive not had a game desktop for about a year.

that's how much traffic it gets