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Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 90
Location: Rethymno, Crete, Greece
When you visit a new topic/post from the Active Topics ( providing that there are no new topics/post in the specific forum) the image for new topics/posts on the index.php isn't getting updated to the no new topics/posts image,.. so it looks like that you haven't visited the forums news but you have really had ...

( i hope i didn't make a mess out of trying to explain.
But in case I did and you visited this topic for the first time from the Active Topics link, try hitting 'Home' and you'll see the icon is still yellow [it should be blue if no other new ones.])
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Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 184
Location: Hungary
Herodes wrote
When you visit a new topic/post from the Active Topics ( providing that there are no new topics/post in the specific forum) the image for new topics/posts on the index.php isn't getting updated to the no new topics/posts image,.. so it looks like that you haven't visited the forums news but you have really had ...

( i hope i didn't make a mess out of trying to explain.
But in case I did and you visited this topic for the first time from the Active Topics link, try hitting 'Home' and you'll see the icon is still yellow [it should be blue if no other new ones.])


This is a problem in 50% of forum engines, according to my experience.
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Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 52
Location: turnhout
Whether it be so on 50% of forum engines or not, it is correct that the indicator is not updated.

Be it a bug or just something not yet foreseen, it would be nice when this could be cured one day.

I didn't quite follow Herodes until I remarked it myself this morning, going thru all new topic from the active list. When returning to HOME, all new post indicator where still yellow.
Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 52
Location: turnhout
On the other hand, when visiting from the home page, and returning, the indicator changes to blue, even if there is still a post unread. Now this should also be reviewed (in future) as it is incorrect. The active topic list is updates as it should, as far as I remarked.
Developer
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 2230
Location: Belgium
In fact the system works, if something (is it a forum or topic) contains new items, the indicator will be yellow until you viewed the forum or topic. If you viewed the unread topics in a forum without viewing the forum itself, the indicator will still be yellow. Maybe a phpBB-alike system will be better, which really always displays the right indicator.
Developer
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 2230
Location: Belgium
Added to 0.5-CVS. The system now acts the same like phpBB does (i.e. everything is displayed right).

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