New Posts

[alanbakewell]

May I respectfully ask;

Why do the "New Posts" seem to disappear after only a couple of hours?
I'm sure they used to be on display longer.

Is the "Clear 'em off" button set to a certain time? Are they deleted from the "New Posts" section manually?

This is a frustrating problem for the likes of me who logs on every morning to read said "New Posts", then comes
home from work and logs on again only to find that unanswered posts have long gone to the big bin in the sky
and only a thorough search of the board index will find said lost posts.

Is it possible to let the "New Posts" remain new for a bit longer? 24 hours perhaps?

Frustrated of Burntwood.

[JimN]

"New Posts" doesn't mean "new posts under a certain age", Alan.

It means "posts which [a member's] account has not seen before".

If you or I didn't log on for (say) a month, we'd both have dozens of "new posts" come up the first time we returned to the site as logged-on members, irrespective of how old the last posts in the threads were.

[Derek Misselbrook]

Alan I thought you were putting up a fence !!.....

[alanbakewell]

"New Posts" doesn't mean "new posts under a certain age", Alan.

It means "posts which [a member's] account has not seen before".

If you or I didn't log on for (say) a month, we'd both have dozens of "new posts" come up the first time we returned to the site as logged-on members, irrespective of how old the last posts in the threads were.

Yes............I've got that..............I think..............

So, if I read this new post, ( actually it's now an old post due to the fact that I've read it ). However, If someone else reads it for the first time, it'll come up as a new post.
I, however, will not be able to read it again due to the fact that I've read it once so it'll be gone. If, however, someone replies to this new post, that new "new" post will remain a new post to me
due to the fact that I've not yet read it.

O.K. then, I understand...............

[alanbakewell]

Alan I thought you were putting up a fence !!.....

Derek, shouldn't you be out spud pickin'?

[Alan Taylor]

Alan B wrote:

So, if I read this new post, ( actually it's now an old post due to the fact that I've read it ). However, If someone else reads it for the first time, it'll come up as a new post. I, however, will not be able to read it again due to the fact that I've read it once so it'll be gone. If, however, someone replies to this new post, that new "new" post will remain a new post to me due to the fact that I've not yet read it.

Not quite Alan. It will not show again as a New Post when someone else reads it, only when someone adds a Reply to the Topic. However, you will be able to read a post again as all Topics are held on the Message Board that they were originally posted on.

[kipper]

this is all as clear as mud. peter

[neil2726]

I've forgotton what the question was!

[bazmusicman]

]I've forgotton what the question was![/quote]

I think it's about spud pickin'!!

Baz.

[dogbender]

Alan, were a secret scriptwriter for Yes Minister by any chance?
Shades of Sir Humphrey Appleby .......
Pete