[DeanC]

The first screenshot, you're on the snippets tab instead of the forums one?

I see the second screenshot here - I had to mark all the threads as read yesterday (the link's at the very bottom of the screen).

I may have a mod, give me five...

[DeanC]

Ok, I've added two things...

1. View New Posts in My Topic(s) - As the title says, any topics you've started and have new posts will show if you click it.
2. Latest Discussions - The 15 newest posts will be shown - 1 from each thread (not 15 from one thread, only the newest shown) - it's down the side of the forum index.

[mikef]

No, I got that page wherever I started from, when logged in as me. I'd tabbed through them to see if they looked any different in an attempt to get the same information as I was getting from the other account!

... but now it is working properly for me as well as for efikim so I guess either going and looking at all my configuration details (none relevant that I could see) or you uploading the mod, or firefox deciding to stop caching something that it shouldn't, or the change in the phase of a distant moon, has fixed it.

thanks, Dean :)

[DeanC]

I'd blame the forum caching rather than your computer - it caches all sorts of things now (topics etc). I've already used one of the mods just before to read posts (the box on the homepage), so I think it'll be handy :D

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change in the phase of a distant moon

LOL! Yeah, could be that too!

It introduces some nifty features - if a staff member views the profile of a spammer on the forums, they can flag the user as a spammer and it automatically disables posting ability and unpublishes all their posts for an admin to delete!

[DeanC]

Can you tell me what this link does that I found near the bottom of the homepage does? And if it works for you?

[Jelmer]

It displays the active content from the last 24hs with me. I found the "new content" button to suit my needs perfectly!

[mikef]

DeanC, on 03 July 2009 - 01:26 PM, said:

Can you tell me what this link does that I found near the bottom of the homepage does? And if it works for you?

It returns a set of what it says is the active content in the last 24 hours currently:

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Page 1 of 1
1.
RSS-Feed
Development > Development Support
* 2 replies
* Today, 09:36 PM by DeanC Icon
2.
[Resolved]Moved to new server > Internal Server Error
International > General Support
* 16 replies
* Today, 09:21 PM by Ralph Icon
3.
*
New posts?
Etomite Community > Site Suggestions and Bugs
* 20 replies
* Today, 05:47 PM by Jelmer Icon
* 2 Attachments
4.
Wich email form snippet is the best
International > General Support
* 0 replies
* Today, 12:16 PM by Bjarne Icon

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This differs from the latest discussions, which are :

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# RSS-Feed
Last post by
DeanC Icon

Replies: 2
Last post: Today, 09:36 PM
# [Resolved]Moved to new serv...
Last post by
Ralph Icon

Replies: 16
Last post: Today, 09:21 PM
# New posts?
Last post by
Jelmer Icon

Replies: 20
Last post: Today, 05:47 PM
# Xinha ImageManager - now wi...
Last post by
cathode Icon

Replies: 8
Last post: Yesterday, 07:45 PM
# [Snippet] NewsletterModule
Last post by
espersen Icon

Replies: 3
Last post: Yesterday, 01:07 PM

and from the new content (the moon's back to its awkward phase), for which the newest entry (on my own account) just before midnight on Friday is

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#
Wich email form snippet is the best
International > General Support

* 0 replies
* Today, 12:16 PM by Bjarne Icon

while on my additional test account, on Chrome rather than Firefox 3.0, I get a different more 'up to date' list (clearly in a different time zone, sorry!) beginning:

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RSS-Feed
Development > Development Support
2 replies
Today, 08:36 PM by DeanC

[Resolved]Moved to new server > Internal Server Error
International > General Support
16 replies
Today, 08:21 PM by Ralph

Wich email form snippet is the best
International > General Support
0 replies
Today, 11:16 AM by Bjarne

In other words not a consistent story ...


(edit: corrected old Firefox version number)

This post has been edited by mikef: 04 July 2009 - 08:26 AM

[mikef]

I've updated to firefox 3.5 and still have the same discrepancies :(

edit:
its not a browser issue, since using chrome with my normal account has the same (incorrect) result as with Firefox.

This post has been edited by mikef: 04 July 2009 - 09:19 AM

[mikef]

yet another oddity ... new posts don't appear in the 'latest discussions' box (because they aren't discussions until someone replies?) but do appear in the 'Today's active content' page. 'View new content' is still misbehaving for me, to the point that its useless for me (latest post shown today (13th July) is from the 10th July) :(

[DeanC]

I really don't understand why it's doing it, and only doing it for you :-/
When I click the view new content button, I see all the new content i havent read or replied to...

I haven't forgotton about this issue - I was hoping maybe this is a known bug that the next release would fix (which i read was coming soon).

[mikef]

Thanks Dean ... I hadn't thought you'd forgotten it, just noticed another oddity and thought it worth reporting for completeness, especially as it may mean new topics are more likely to be missed than they used to be.

[DeanC]

Upgraded to 3.0.1


edit: ooooh I see an improvement myself - before when I read a topic, it automatically removed it from my list instead of de-bolding it. whereas now, it's de-bolded.

[DeanC]

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Major Changes Since 3.0.0

Among many dozens of smaller bugs fixed, the following large changes and fixes have been made in 3.0.1 release:

* View new content changes so its more like 2.3.6 where it's based off last visit. Option to use the 3.0 style in user settings.
* Option to view search results in a view similar to a forum.
* More filter and sort options with search
* Optimized search and view new content to improve performance
* Sessions not clearing in some PHP versions fixed. Will improve performance on those versions.
* Language import / export system is much more stable now.
* Slow queries in the Portal have been optimized.
* Many Facebook Connect issues have been addressed.
* PM counts being incorrect have been fixed.
* Old media tag and quote tag issues impacting display of older posts fixed.
* Watched content hook in sidebar resource usage addressed.



Important: We have received reports of IP.Board 3.0.1 not working correctly on servers running PHP version 5.3. Please do not upgrade to IP.Board 3 if your host runs PHP 5.3. We are working on a fix for this issue and should have it in place for 3.0.2 release.

That PHP 5.3 thing is the same with Eto ;-) It's the same issue!

[DeanC]

Mike, click here, scroll to the bottom and choose your view new content option... I've got it as show me all new content since last visit.

[mikef]

DeanC, on 16 July 2009 - 06:03 PM, said:

Mike, click here, scroll to the bottom and choose your view new content option... I've got it as show me all new content since last visit.

same setting for me ... its up to date now, but only shows your one post since restarting!

I'll keep an eye on it and hopefully it will all be now fixed.

as for the PHP 5.3 issue, in my opinion its clearly a serious bug in PHP 5.3 error management - adding a new error code that is merely 'deprecated' should not break existing code!