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Forum Information & Policies => Website Discussion & Suggestion Box => Topic started by: GillE on June 03, 2005, 09:47
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The "View Posts Since Last Visit" function isn't working for me :( . Either that or nobody has posted here in the last two days...
Gill
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I'm having trouble with it too, Gill. Try clearing your cache and cookies, then allow it to set a new cookie next time you log in. It only works the first time you use the link, then it resets, so if there are lots of new posts, use your Back button to return to the screen, rather than refreshing. If you want to catch up on the posts you may have missed, you can use the 'View posts from previous Day' feature.
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Not working here either and as I had to take the "Forgotten Password" route to get in I had already cleared all my stored private data.
The board looks good though.
:)
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Well, I'm glad it's not just me! Hopefully Sam will be able to sort it, when he gets up, but you know these students, they only get out of their pit when they're hungry! :twisted:
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i was up at 7, thank you!!! :-) been busy organising stuff for a public talk at uni.
umm it seems that this version of phpbb has a few problems - it took me ages to realise that the drop down search wasnt working.
interesting though as the view posts since last visit is working fine for me... argh!!
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It's working for me when I click it.
But before clicking it, it doesn't tell the number of the new posts. (If that helps).
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good news, at least it isnt only me who it is working for.
Reseting all cookies might be the way to go....I shall look into any other reason why it shouldnt be working.
oh and did it ever say how many?
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I've done that, Sam, and it still isn't working for me :( .
Gill
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umm odd, what out of interest what browser are you using (will help me track down the possible solution).
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It seems to be working better for me now, but you have to treat it very carefully. It only seems to work properly when you first log in, and if you refresh or close the page before you've read them all, you've had it. It does seem to help to allow the cookie to remain on your machine, so you can stay logged in even when you close and re-open your browser. Not a very good system though.
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will look into how these cookies are handled
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Yes, that could be a key. It's not remembering which posts are unread.
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Hi Sam
I'm using Firefox.
Gill
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umm same here, odd that.
the only thing i can think of at the moment is the cookies since it works fine for me and a few others using firefox.
i will endeavor to find the problem, for now i would suggest you use the last day feature.
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actually one other thing - when there are new posts does the forum icon become yellow for you?
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Hi Sam
No, it doesn't turn yellow - I hadn't noticed that.
Gill
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ummm very odd - so it is not the post since last visit feature that isnt working.
it seems to me that your cookies might not have updated. Can I check that the url you are using to access the board is http://www.pc-pals.com/forum/ (and not the temp address). This could cause a possible cookie problem.
if that is the case then i have a few other ideas, but could you check this first form me - thanks.
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Gill, you may need to set Firefox to allow cookies from pc-pals.com. To do this, go to Tools > Options > Privacy, and open the Cookies panel, then click Exceptions, type 'pc-pals.com' (without the quotation marks), and click Allow. You may need to then restart the browser. Let us know if that does the trick.
Oi, Sam! How come you seem to have a better version of Firefox than the rest of us?! :angry: :grin:
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well i am not sure, i did use a cvs version at first not now though. possibly that i was lucky enough to click the right settings.
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It does seem to be working for me now - well sort of. It still doesn't tell me how many posts are unread as the other board did, but I can live with that. Also, unlike Simon's experience, using Opera I can refresh the page as many times as I want to and it doesn't lose them, although I haven't risked logging off and then back in before I have read them all.
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It still doesn't tell me how many posts are unread as the other board did, but I can live with that.
That's because the modification used on the old forum hasn't been updated, and therefore can't be used on this one, until it has been. I know Sam was looking at this, but we may have to wait a while for it.
It seems to work better for me, now I have removed the string of letters and numbers in my bookmarked url. I now just use http://pc-pals.com/forum/search.php?search_id=newposts and it seems to work fine at the moment.
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OK, thanks, Simon. :)
One definite improvement I have found is that if you are on the Index page and happen to accidentally left-click the mouse, it doesn't immediately redirect you to the part of the forum that the curser happened to be on at the time as if the whole page was one big live link. Now, it only redirects if you click on a deliberate link which I find much better when it comes to navigating the site.
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I never noticed the old one doing that, but glad this is better, Dave. :)
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http://pc-pals.com/forum/search.php?search_id=newposts
thats exactly what the linked button does.
the numbers are session_id related but it shouldnt matter if you remove them, but things may not work as well.
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Another thought Gill - how many attempts does it take for you to login?
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Hi Sam
I'm using the address you've given and I've set my browser in accordance with Simon's instructions. Still no joy.
Gill
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Which version of Firefox are you using, Gill? The latest is 1.0.4.
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I've been using v1.03, so I'm downloading v1.04 right now. Let's hope it improves things!
Gill
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Well, it's a long shot, but it might. :|
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Bullseye!!!
:D :D :D
Now I can can not only use the "View Posts Since Last Visit", but I get yellow icons where there are new posts.
Thanks for yur help, Simon and Sam.
Gill
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Excellent! :banana:
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now that is odd..the only thing i can think of is by downloading the latest version it might have changed something in your setup that we didnt think of and thus meaning it worked. That the older version was f***ed. I know that it had quite a few security holes in it so it was worthwhile getting the latest version for that alone.
glad it works :-)
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On a different topic, has somebody altered the clock? I could have sworn that the post I made this morning was one hour ahead, but it seems to have been adjusted. If that's the case, I can't find any more bugs - I'm even getting the yellow icons where there are new posts now. Not only that, but the board does seem much faster than the old board which started off OK but eventually became slower than snail-pace.
Good work folks! :D
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Having said that, my new post seems to be one hour behind. :?:
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The clock is about 4 minutes fast at the moment, Dave, although we're not sure why. Sam has it on his to-do-list. If yours is an hour out, then maybe you need to alter the time setting in your profile?
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yes it would have to be the profile thing - does the time say "All times are GMT + 1 Hour" ?
as for the 4 minutes. I believe, for some odd reason, the server clock is 4 minutes fast!! Not much we can do about that, I still need to fully verify this.
glad everything else is working for you though.
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Thanks, guys, I'll check it out now. :)
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Whooo! That seems to have done the trick. We're flying now. :D
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It still doesn't tell me how many posts are unread as the other board did, but I can live with that.
does it tell you now??
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It's telling me, now!
:hatoff:
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:D yay!