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03/30/2006 10:50:46 AM · #51 |
When you post to a thread you are taken to your post instead of the beginning of the thread.
When the arrow is yellow it takes you to the last post you read.
Try clearing your cookies for the site and dump your cache and relog into the site. See if that helps. Perhaps, if your cookie was set before he made the change, your cookie is not correct. Langdon did make a change right after implemented because of not working complaints in the announcement thread.
Message edited by author 2006-03-30 10:52:42. |
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03/30/2006 11:02:16 AM · #52 |
Originally posted by Alienyst:
When you post to a thread you are taken to your post instead of the beginning of the thread.
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What color should this arrow be? |
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03/30/2006 11:08:07 AM · #53 |
Upon clearing my cookie (I THINK I got the right one) and logging out and back in, I see all the arrows gray and pointing downward, even on threads I have not visited or posted in. I click one of those gray arrows, and I go to the end of a thread (a one page thread) even though I have previously read nothing on that page.
Off to research further. |
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03/30/2006 11:19:37 AM · #54 |
Originally posted by nards656:
Originally posted by Alienyst:
When you post to a thread you are taken to your post instead of the beginning of the thread.
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What color should this arrow be? |
Not an arrow - when you post a reply to a thread and press the POST button, you are taken to your post in the thread instead of the beginning of the thread.
Gray arrows just tell you nothing new has been added since the last time you viewed the thread and take you to the bottom of the thread. Yellow arrows indicate something new has been added since the last time you viewed and should take you to the point in the thread where you have not read yet. If that is the last post, then the end of the thread. If you haven't read anything in the thread yet the yellow arrow would act just like clicking the thread title and place you at the beginning of the thread.
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03/30/2006 11:27:26 AM · #55 |
Originally posted by Alienyst:
Gray arrows just tell you nothing new has been added since the last time you viewed the thread and take you to the bottom of the thread. Yellow arrows indicate something new has been added since the last time you viewed and should take you to the point in the thread where you have not read yet. If that is the last post, then the end of the thread. If you haven't read anything in the thread yet the yellow arrow would act just like clicking the thread title and place you at the beginning of the thread. |
Actually all this information seems to change based on my visits to the "Home" page rather than my visit to the actual thread. I'm seeing yellow arrows change to gray just from refreshing the page.
EDIT - That's not always true, but it's something along those lines. I'm really not an idiot, I just feel like one, because there's just not an easily definable pattern happening here.
Originally posted by Alienyst:
Not an arrow - when you post a reply to a thread and press the POST button, you are taken to your post in the thread instead of the beginning of the thread. |
EDIT - This works properly.
Message edited by author 2006-03-30 11:30:08. |
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03/30/2006 11:41:19 AM · #56 |
Right now I'm so confused I don't know what the little arrows are doing, but when I click on the yellow arrows, I wind up in the middle or at the end of a thread that I don't recall ever viewing before at all.
Regardless, carry on, enough time wasted with this :) Langdon, Club, somebody - if you get a chance to verify that this is all working, I think you might need to. No big deal.
Tata for now. |
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03/30/2006 12:05:19 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by nards656:
Right now I'm so confused I don't know what the little arrows are doing, but when I click on the yellow arrows, I wind up in the middle or at the end of a thread that I don't recall ever viewing before at all.
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But this statement sounds like it is doing just what it is supposed to do. I think you just have bad recall of what you have read or perhaps opened the threads in new tabs but never actually got around to reading that tab before closing it. |
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03/30/2006 12:46:44 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by Alienyst:
I think you just have bad recall... |
Probably the truest thing you've ever said.
:)
It's probably just me, but hey, maybe somebody else has bad recall too!
Thanks anyway. |
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03/30/2006 12:48:48 PM · #59 |
Originally posted by nards656:
Actually all this information seems to change based on my visits to the "Home" page rather than my visit to the actual thread. I'm seeing yellow arrows change to gray just from refreshing the page. |
I'm almost certain you've hit the nail on the head. I have the feeling that the system is using the time you were last active within DPC, not the time that you last visited a thread.
That's fine, I understand what it's doing. It's a better system than we had and in future and it will no doubt get an upgrade to make it better again. I'm grateful for the addition.
Brett |
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03/31/2006 01:09:02 AM · #60 |
Originally posted by KiwiPix:
Originally posted by nards656:
Actually all this information seems to change based on my visits to the "Home" page rather than my visit to the actual thread. I'm seeing yellow arrows change to gray just from refreshing the page. |
I'm almost certain you've hit the nail on the head. I have the feeling that the system is using the time you were last active within DPC, not the time that you last visited a thread.
That's fine, I understand what it's doing. It's a better system than we had and in future and it will no doubt get an upgrade to make it better again. I'm grateful for the addition.
Brett |
Also, DPC will 'reset' automatically from time to time (such as when taking a long time to read or reply to a thread). This randomly resets all threads to read.
David
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03/31/2006 03:17:16 PM · #61 |
I've been having the same problem nards656 was having. Also, today when I click on the yellow arrow I am not taken to the last message I read. Three times I have clicked on a yellow arrow for a discussion and all three times I was taken to the same spot in the middle of the thread although I read to the end (2 more pages). I use IE.
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03/31/2006 04:39:27 PM · #62 |
Yeah, something broke. It was working fine for me before, but now it shows everything since early yesterday morning as being unread. It marks them read if I read them, but only for that session -- when I close and reopen the browser everything is unread again. Last post read is still working, but the marking of the posts as being read seems to have stopped working.
David
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03/31/2006 06:24:22 PM · #63 |
Mine has stopped working, too :-( Keeps taking me to the first post on some threads, still seems to work on others at times.
(Win XP Professional, IE 6.0) |
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03/31/2006 07:16:14 PM · #64 |
I made an effort at phasing out cookies for this feature and things got a little mixed up. The feature should be fully functional now (and cookie-less).
To settle some confusion, we aren't actually storing the last time you looked at every individual thread, but we are storing the last time you visited forum.php. Only during your active session will we keep track of individual threads. When you leave and come back, it will reset and assume all posts past the date you last hit forum.php have been read.
Hope that makes sense, I'm terrible at explaining things. |
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03/31/2006 09:34:39 PM · #65 |
thanks, working great again.
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03/31/2006 10:01:01 PM · #66 |
So I weren't crazy after all???? Wheew. :)
Yes, Langdon, that makes sense. |
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03/31/2006 10:30:30 PM · #67 |
Originally posted by nards656:
So I weren't crazy after all???? |
Well . . . |
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04/02/2006 09:34:43 AM · #68 |
I am finding that with some of the threads that have a lot of thumbnails/links/pictures posted, the browser will only take me down about half-way or 3/4 the way down the page.
I'm running FireFox with 25 posts/pg. |
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04/02/2006 09:46:10 AM · #69 |
That's because it takes you to the bottom before the thumbnails are loaded. Once they load they take up a lot more room, stretching the page.
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04/02/2006 09:47:36 AM · #70 |
My computer's cup holder broke when I put hot tea on it and I can't get it to do french toast no matter what I type? Is it DPC's fault?
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04/08/2006 11:13:07 AM · #71 |
Originally posted by Konador:
That's because it takes you to the bottom before the thumbnails are loaded. Once they load they take up a lot more room, stretching the page. |
Just an update -- I have also found that if the last person to post in a thread also posted higher up on the same page that the last post is on, that I will be referred to a post of theirs higher up on the same page. |
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04/08/2006 11:15:14 AM · #72 |
Originally posted by idnic:
My computer's cup holder broke when I put hot tea on it and I can't get it to do french toast no matter what I type? Is it DPC's fault? |
No, that is probably just an oversight of SC.
:P |
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04/08/2006 11:36:58 AM · #73 |
Originally posted by idnic:
My computer's cup holder broke when I put hot tea on it and I can't get it to do french toast no matter what I type? Is it DPC's fault? |
If you want hot T, Try installing a small heater below your keyboard, between the "R" and "Y" keys.
As for French toast, there's just no way to get that with an American keyboard.
~Terry
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