New post time limit

[Glenn]

Apparently there is a time limit on the "new post" display. I'm not quite sure how it works, though. It seems that as long as you are actively looking around, it won't mark all of the fora read, but if you are responding or reading, it will after a certain period of time. Then again, maybe I've just been beating the time limit.

Anyway, is there any way that this can be disabled? I looked through the User CP but I didn't see anything about it in the options. It annoys me when I am working on a response, and all of the fora get marked "read." If I haven't looked through all of them yet, I won't know what the new messages are. So I find myself having to hurry through reading all of the new posts, and then trying to remember the ones to which I wanted to respond. I think that it would be much easier (for me) to just hit "refresh" and check the new posts, than to have to go through all of them looking for new posts manually if I get caught by the time limit. If you don't want to disable it for all members all the time, could we get a personal option? I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

[Uncle Frank]

I have to log out to see the posts! I don't know how many times I get shut out on "New Posts"! VERY aggrevating!I must lon on & off 20 times a day so I can read the older posts!

Frank

:(

[jeisan]

its always been like that lol, seems to be able 10-15 minutes if youre in thread view, longer for forum view.
anyway you can always use this link (http://www.jref.com/forum/search.php?do=getdaily) to get all threads active within the last 24 hours. aka the old "today's active threads"

[mdchachi]

Glenn, we all have the same problem. Related discussion: http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7663

One thing you can do is go through all the posts first and right-click open each thread that you are interested in. Then go through the (possibly many) open browser windows at your leisure and let the new post search time out.

Thanks for the link, Jei, I didn't know you could do that.

[jeisan]

youre welcome, i just copied it from the logged out version awhile back, tis useful.

[Keiichi]

I try to bypass this by just opening any page to refresh your active time so it doesn't expire yet.

[Glenn]

Thanks for the help, guys. I like jeisan's method, so I've been using that the past couple of days, and it works great. Thanks again to all of you.

[bossel]

For some silly reason (which I already forgot) I looked in the list of today's posts a bit beyond the last stuff I had already seen before. What I found on page 3 is in the screenshot below. As you can see, there is a thread with last post from today in between posts from yesterday. How comes?

Sometimes when I opened a thread there were older posts in there which I had not yet seen, although I was pretty sure I would have opened that thread if I had noticed it in the search list. I put that down to either partial blindness or a memory hole on my side, but maybe it's a software bug?

[jeisan]

thats becuase someone replied to it after you searched but before you actually got to the page it was on. it still holds it original place in your search, even though someone has replied to it unless you do a new search.

[bossel]

Oh, of course. Should have thought of that myself! :bluush:
Thanks, Jeisan!

[jeisan]

hehe no problem bossel...

[Lina Inverse]

I think the time limit after which all posts get marked read is about a quarter of an hour. So I normally help myself in having another tab open where I browse around often enough to simulate enough activity while compiling a longer reply.