The forum has changed!

[emily_in_nc]

I have a different issue that cropped up with the new forum. It's not a "bug" but just something that bugs me. When I go to the forum, I always click on "New Posts". In the old forum, that would only show me threads with new posts since my last visit. Now, in addition (and following) those, I get a whole slew of posts under "The threads below have not been updated since your last visit but still contain unread posts." Is there any way to turn that off. If I didn't read them before, I don't want to read 'em this time around either. It makes my "new posts" search go on for page after page.

Minor, I know, but just one of those niggling little changes I don't care for.

Thanks!

[Possegal]

The only way I've found around that Emily is to read the ones that are new that I want to read and the click to mark all posts read. That's the only work-around to that aspect that I've figured out.

[emily_in_nc]

The only way I've found around that Emily is to read the ones that are new that I want to read and the click to mark all posts read. That's the only work-around to that aspect that I've figured out.

Thanks, Possegal! I never used to have to do that so didn't even think of it. I will give it a try.

[OakLeaf]

I really haven't been following this thread, so apologies if someone has posted before, but sometimes when I post a quick reply, I will get the error message "do you really want to navigate away from this page?" It's intermittent and I haven't identified anything that says when it will do that and when it won't. I'm on MacOS 10.6.8 and Firefox 15.0.1.

ETA - it did it this time.

[zoom-zoom]

I really haven't been following this thread, so apologies if someone has posted before, but sometimes when I post a quick reply, I will get the error message "do you really want to navigate away from this page?" It's intermittent and I haven't identified anything that says when it will do that and when it won't. I'm on MacOS 10.6.8 and Firefox 15.0.1.

ETA - it did it this time.

I get this too...same OS, Safari browser.

[zoom-zoom]

It just did it to me, too.

[emily_in_nc]

I get this too...same OS, Safari browser.

Me too -- with Windows 7, Chrome browser. It's after my post goes through successfully, though it doesn't look like it did. If I click "Stay on this page", it then warns me that I can't post again for 45 seconds. But I didn't try to post again. This entire sequence does appear to be some sort of bug with the "Post Quick Reply". Just happened to me above when I posted the reply to Jeff.

Emily

[Crankin]

OK, I just had that problem, as Emily described. I rarely use the Quick Reply, but I just did.
Using Chrome with Mac 10.8.2

[Catrin]

Me too -- with Windows 7, Chrome browser. It's after my post goes through successfully, though it doesn't look like it did. If I click "Stay on this page", it then warns me that I can't post again for 45 seconds. But I didn't try to post again. This entire sequence does appear to be some sort of bug with the "Post Quick Reply". Just happened to me above when I posted the reply to Jeff.

Emily

I've had this happen quite a few times in the last couple of days as well. Chrome and Firefox, Windows 7 64-bit if it matters.

[Irulan]

How do I fix this.... I went to "Forum Actions" and clicked on "mark all as read" and now the new posts aren't bolding to show as unread! Help, what did I do?

[administrator]

Emily,

New posts since your last visit are at the top of page 1 - everything after the "threads below" marker can be ignored. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, you shouldn't have to go on page-after-page ???

I have a different issue that cropped up with the new forum. It's not a "bug" but just something that bugs me. When I go to the forum, I always click on "New Posts". In the old forum, that would only show me threads with new posts since my last visit. Now, in addition (and following) those, I get a whole slew of posts under "The threads below have not been updated since your last visit but still contain unread posts." Is there any way to turn that off. If I didn't read them before, I don't want to read 'em this time around either. It makes my "new posts" search go on for page after page.

Minor, I know, but just one of those niggling little changes I don't care for.

Thanks!

[emily_in_nc]

Emily,

New posts since your last visit are at the top of page 1 - everything after the "threads below" marker can be ignored. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, you shouldn't have to go on page-after-page ???

No, you're not misunderstanding. It's just a small annoyance since it never did that before the forum changes that I recall. However, thanks to the tip above, I just did a "mark all read" and it went away. It's just a preference, not a bug at all. Thanks, Jeff, for checking!

Emily