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Simmo the problem is we have so many posts we need room to display them all and offer a chance for people to see them before they are shifted down and out of view by subsequent threads.
We can look at reducing some of the clutter in CAP 2.0, but I dont want to lose functionality. We have less visable forum areas at AP and what happens is people dont see posts in the sub forums at all and probably most people arent even aware they are there.
Funny…I was going to suggest more forums at AP. I guess you can’t please everyone…lol.
I find that more forums makes it easier to find information. But everyone is differant.
Use the “new posts” function.
It saves so much time and you see everything.
Ah now there’s an idea Dom. D’oh :banger: I’ll do that.
I was using AP the other day funnily enough…some cool stuff there I never realised
I have a forum problem.. threads that I haven’t read yet seem to get marked as read. So I come to the forum, see a bunch of new threads, and read some of them. Later I come back and the threads I didn’t read are now marked as read, making it hard to work out what I’ve seen and what I haven’t.
I looked in my control panel but I can’t see a setting that controls this, and it doesn’t happen to me at other forums (though I use hardly any other vBulletins)
Dominique wrote:Use the “new posts” function.It saves so much time and you see everything.
Do I have to set that up in my preferences or how do I get to the new posts?:hattip:
Professor wrote:Yeah that happens to me too occasionally. I will have the techs check into that.Thanks. I just tested the New Posts feature, and that has the same issue. I clicked New Posts, it showed 7 or 8 threads. I logged out and back in again, now it shows 1 post without me having read anything in the meantime.
(Note that I logged out/in just to expediate it, normally I never log out and threads still get marked as read without me doing anything)
Professor wrote:Yeah that happens to me too occasionally. I will have the techs check into that.Happens to me too and is most annoying, but seems to be an occasional problem. Not sure what the trigger is.
It’s constant for me. Just seems to be time based – if I come back a few hours later they’ll be marked as read.
I read far fewer threads than you guys, so it’s likely you might not notice most of the time (cos you read all the threads anyway)?
Maybe a cookie is expiring or something?
howardmoon wrote:Thanks. I just tested the New Posts feature, and that has the same issue. I clicked New Posts, it showed 7 or 8 threads. I logged out and back in again, now it shows 1 post without me having read anything in the meantime.(Note that I logged out/in just to expediate it, normally I never log out and threads still get marked as read without me doing anything)
this happens to me if i dont use the ‘back’ button on the browser and instead just click on the forum button once i’m in some thread. since i was already at that page, everything gets marked as read…go figure
The new posts problem is typical of the read/mark read system on Vbulletin 3.5. In order to get around this, you must upgrade to vbulletin 3.6 whereby they have rewritten the system to give the administrator a few different options, including: don’t mark as read until member has actually read that specific thread
P.S. Regardless of that Prof you should upgrade to 3.6. It’s pretty easy to upgrade. It makes things smoother and has many improvements.
Nick we have a lot of customizations done on the script and we have been worried that if we update they may have to be redone. We are probably going to do this anyway in CAP 2.0 and see what happens.
Yep, I know what you mean. If those changes are “template” based then it should be fine, if they are edited .php files then you may have problems, yes.
Either way, I’d say copy the database over to a test location and perform an upgrade to see how it goes.
