Problem with new topics. (Page 1 of 2)

It's meant to be that way. The topic is "new" in 600sec by default. There is no beautiful solution to the problem.

That was clever, three replies within 24 seconds of each other.

All my users don't like

Me too in fact

but it's not the important : fast, simple, it's important, and pun is great for this

In fact, I was BEFORE on phpBB, and when you visited, hop, the newest topic read ... more practice, in fact ( no ? )

I neve used a vBulletin 2... I always used a phpBB or the forums hosted by www.miarroba.com.

Just an idle thought. There is no simple way of doing anything about the icon. However. it would be easy enough to style the [new post] text with A:visited to give a visual clue as to what had been read. In fact if you used A:visited {display:none} then it would just vanish.

I wonder what would happen if the icon was made a link with the same destination and class as the [new post] text. Maybe they would both vanish.

This way you get visual feedback which is what most people are after without any coding.

All I was thinking about was where somebody is faced with a long list of new posts in viewforum. I thought a simple indicator of which ones had been read might be useful. Thats what A:visited was created for in the first place. It has become fashionable to style A:link and A:visited the same because links are used for navigation but this is a case where the old fashioned approach might actually help. The same could be said of links in search results.

There is actually no need to get rid of the image or anything else. Changing the colour of [new posts] or going from bold to normal would probably be enough of an indicator. In fact if you just left the default behaviour of A:visited most people would recognise it.

Ohhh, NOW I see why it work :)

You have different links for each new post in the topic-list! Like this:

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=18156#18156

I think it's a great idea! :D

Once you have put a class on it then it is up to the designer to do it how they like. You are right. There is nothing that can be done about the icon on index but I didn't see that as being a usability problem.

I knew there had to be a catch. The only way around that one is to append either a timestamp or the id of the new post to the link so it is a unique link each time. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

As the section of code that handles all of this in viewforum uses the last_post id couldn't that be appended to the [new posts] link in some form. If there have been new posts since the last visit then the last_post id is bound to be different so it will be a new link. Are there any problems in passing unused parameters in links?