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Crash Test Dummy · Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 4911 Location: London(ish)

I spoke to Erol8) and he says that this is how it is meant to be. My unread threads are orange. If i was to log off without reading them, then log back on they are no longer orange.

I always remember them staying orange until they have been read. This is since the 'new' forum.

Is it just me?

Dhavlos · Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 4697 Location: Birmingham

No i get this as well, and i would prefer it if it was like the old way ...then i can catch up easily

andytandreou · Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 239 Location: Larnaka

why don't you both try NOT logging out all the time?

Dhavlos · Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 4697 Location: Birmingham

Wel,, ihave to turn off my computer at some point during my life!!! (like when i go to bed!)

Even if i close the Internet window, if i try to log back on, i loose any chance of finding what ive read or not, cos the orange lights ahve all dissappeared. :(

Its not my fault :(

city · Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3370 Location: Larnaca area

andytandreou wrote: why don't you both try NOT logging out all the time?

Because there is an automated logout period when you stay inactive for a certain period of time. Like if you have to work a little bit in between..... :wink:

city · Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3370 Location: Larnaca area

Crash Test Dummy wrote: ......I always remember them staying orange until they have been read. This is since the 'new' forum.

Is it just me?

I never had this like that. Once you log out and then login again, everything will be marked "read". No orange anymore. That was also the case in the old version of the forum and also on any other php forum I know....

Dhavlos · Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 4697 Location: Birmingham

No city, i just get nothing :( its all white....i have to look at the dates and times of the last thread to know if ive read it before :( very tedious.

city · Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3370 Location: Larnaca area

Dhavlos wrote: No city, i just get nothing :( its all white....i have to look at the dates and times of the last thread to know if ive read it before :( very tedious.

Thats what I mean. Threads are only marked "unread" when you login. Once you have logged out and then logged in again the orange will be gone. Hold on a moment - there was something Erol suggested, I'll go have a look.....

city · Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3370 Location: Larnaca area

check this thread

http://www.talkcyprus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6312

erolz · Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 4195 Location: Kyrenia / Girne

Just to recap the forum does NOT keeptrack of which posts you have read or not for you.

What it does (if it is working) is notify you how many posts have been created since your last loggin and mark these with orange icons. In database temrs it does a simple match between the last logged in date for a users and the creation date of posts.

If the forum is not doing the above then you need to check a couple of things. Firstly make sure you are comming to the site with the right URL and not the old ones - this is especially true if you use bookmarks/favourites/shourtcuts to come to the forum. The correct URL will have /forum in it after the talkcyprus.org bit.

The second thing to try if it is still not working as above is to clear the cookies that realte to this site. In firefox you can do this within the browser selecting tools-options-privacy-cookies-view cookies and finding the entries that relate to the site www.talkyprus.org. For IE you can either delete all your cookies (but this will affect other sites you visit) or delete the talkcyprus cookies manualy by finding the cookies directroy that realtes to your user id and searching for www.talkcyprus.org cookies. The path / filename will be something like this (but not exactly like this)

G:\Documents and Settings\erol\Cookies\erol@www.talkcyprus[2].txt

One way to 'manage' viewing new posts is when visiting the forum to open browser windows for any sections that have new posts, and to leave this windows open until you have visted all the new post you are interested in. You can do this by not clicking on the threads shown as new but right clicking and opening them in a new window. Thus you leave the browser window that listed them alone until you have visited those you wish to see. This will work even if you 'time out' re being logged in. As long as you do not click away from these browser windows or close them then they will still show those thrreads that were new at the time you opened them.

Hope that helps a bit

city · Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3370 Location: Larnaca area

Erol, I posted the link above to save you from having to write this all again!
As its exactly what you explained to me then.

erolz · Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 4195 Location: Kyrenia / Girne

city wrote: Erol, I posted the link aboce to save you from having to write this all again!
As its exactly what you explained to me then.
I know city and I appreciate your doing so.

It just seemed that it needed some 'reitieration' :)

Maybe one more time and the 'third time lucky' rule will kick in ? ;)

city · Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3370 Location: Larnaca area

erolz wrote: ....Maybe one more time and the 'third time lucky' rule will kick in ? ;)

yeah, hope dies last, isn't it?! :wink:

Dhavlos · Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 4697 Location: Birmingham

Erol, i still have the problem of having to log in twice before im actually logged in....even having ticked the boxes('remember me'/'log me in automatically').

Help please!:)

cannedmoose · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:22 am Post subject:

Let Erol sleep, he's had a busy evening getting lost and almost run over by a number of motorised vehicles... :lol: