Avoid duplications in "Topic With New Posts"
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Topic: Avoid duplications in "Topic With New Posts"
Posted By: Gerinski
Subject: Avoid duplications in "Topic With New Posts"
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 07:49
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This is going to be one of those suggestions that can't get through because the software is built as it is, but here it goes anyway:
In the Forum Home page at the bottom we can see the "20 Topics with new posts, refreshed every minute".
But if a topic has had several posts it gets listed as many times as new posts it has had, so if a thread is very active it will be shown many times, preventing us from seeing other threads which had recent posts.
Indeed you have the choice to display "all topics with new posts since your last visit" but I think it would be more user-friendly if the same thread was not repeated for every post it has had, then we could at once see the real last 20 threads which have had new posts.
This example shows that we see only 7 topics instead of 20.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 07:51
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Weird. I was just looking at that place myself a minute or two ago and I rarely do. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 08:27
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I never use it - I use http://www.progarchives.com/forum/active_topics.asp" rel="nofollow - New Posts instead.
However, if the list just showed twenty most recent topics you wouldn't necessarily know whether any new posts had been made in that thread since you last checked it since it would no longer be chronological.
The list as it is also tells you more about the frequency of replies and the popularity of the thread. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 08:29
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PS: Several years ago we removed Just For Fun threads from the list because chatroom threads (like the Shred) were swamping it - perhaps someone could now suggest removing Prog Polls from the list. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 08:54
I did not use "New Posts", thanks for the suggestion Dean ! 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 21:18
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I'd support this. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 14:48
Hi, after checking "New Posts" a few times it seems to me that is displays only threads on "Progressive Music Lounges", not in any other chapter.
Can someone confirm if this is so?
If this is the case and if I want to follow all threads with recent activity regardless of the chapter I'm back to square one, "New Posts" is not the solution.
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Dean wrote:Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 14:53
It should list them all, by forum and then by most recent reply; but there may be more than one page of new posts, so check on the bottom to see if there's a Page 2. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 07 2012 at 17:56
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...I was going to say, "try Page 2", but I've been ninja'd.
New Posts lists all lounges, including Just For Fun which the Active Threads list does not. You may need to adjust the "Show Topics" time if the thread you are interested in hasn't been posted in recently, but it will show all the lounges you are allowed to see, ------------- What? |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 08 2012 at 01:18
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