Going to new posts in a thread?

[jtrain609]

Is anyone else having problems with their browser not going to the latest post in a thread? Every time I click on a thread it keeps going to the top and never to the new posts.

[Mike Lewis]

I'm seeing some weirdness with it as well. Let me do some more investigating into the rhyme and reason with it and we'll see what we can do.

[SteveC]

Originally Posted by John Herreshoff

Is anyone else having problems with their browser not going to the latest post in a thread? Every time I click on a thread it keeps going to the top and never to the new posts.

John, it's a two step process for me. First open the thread, then click on the "View First Unread" button on the top left corner of the first post. Voila! Works every time for me. Not as convenient as the old forum software because now it's two step instead of one, but it works.

[mtsu_av8er]

John, what are all those letters in your sig??

[Kristie]

look guys...if you hit the little arrow to the left of the thread (before opening the thread), it'll take you to the latest post you haven't yet read...

it's a little down arrow, even put your mouse over it and it tells you "go to newest post"

if you click on the thread, it will go to the very first post.

[Mike Lewis]

The problem I am having with it is that it doesn't seem to be remembering what posts are unread. For example, I'll hit the "New Posts" button, and then the "Next Unread" thing, and I'll go to the next unread. Then later, someone else will post, and when I click on Next Unread, it takes me back to the original (previous) unread message instead of the "real" next unread message.

Then, today at work I read a bunch of threads. When I got home and logged in, the "Next Unread" took me to the next unread message since I had viewed it at home, so in often cases, the next unread took me to my own message that I had posted at work!

It's almost as if the "read" and "unread" settings are stored in a cookie versus being stored in the database.

I'm still trying to figure out why it works sometimes and why it doesn't in others.

[Kristie]

I have noticed that sometimes the next unread can sometimes be my own post...that happens on my site too.

I'm not quite sure how to fix all that! we'll have to do some research on that.

[Kristie]

ok, now i see what your talking about! i've had to scroll up to see some of the posts i've missed....

[ready2fly]

Yup. Having the same issues here.