Avoid duplications in "Topic With New Posts"

 

 

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,

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.

 

 

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.

 

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.