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BillieTheBot
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Quick question - is there a setting on vBulletin that doesn't flag all topics as read if your session has exceeded ~10 minutes? I find that I visit TheSite, read the new threads in the top sections, work my way down health, relationships etc, then by the time I hit entertainment, everything new to me are automatically flagged as read because I have spent too long on the forum. Cheers.
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It's a bit frustrating and I'd hope they've seperated the functionality for vbulletin 4 (which we'll hopefully upgrade to within the year). But for now it's gonna have to remain like this.
It's actually set to 15 minutes which I've got to say it's a bit too much to go over that - especially since things like how many people are online can tie into things like funding bids. Just going over this starts to feel a little dishonest.
But, yeah, I can understand the problem just afraid it's not something I can sort out right now. :grump:
On thing you could do would be to open threads in a new tab - frustrating but it should mean the original list stays there for you to look through?
This is what I do, i have an original new posts list open, open stuffy I want to read in a tab, once i've opened it all i start reading then
Any examples of specific forums - like I said if we can find a way to show you're no longer online after 15 minutes of inactivity but also allow the list not to reset then we'd be happy to take a look at it.
This change may be more processor intensive, so please bear in mind it could cause problems. So let me know here if you're seeing any major slow down.
We've changed the setting from using the 15 minute session time out to instead using a direct link with the database. On top of that I've got a 5 day set up to mark things as automatically read if there's been no activity.
You should also see that this means if you're looking at threads at work, then at home, that the database should remember which threads you've looked at.
Please let me know if you find this an improvement over the next few days so we can decide whether to keep it or move back to the previous setting.
You can quickly get it up to date by either using the individual option 'mark forum read' in each forum's tools. Or you can mark everything read using > Quick links > Mark Forums Read.
Either way should get everything relatively up to date, ready to see how things work in the future.
Right... probably stop reply to myself some time round about now...
One way I'm finding I use it is to look through the list and when I've read everything I want to just resetting it using the quick links option to mark everything read.
That way it seems a lot less overwhelming.
Apparently this is the way the kids like it these days but I'm more than willing to change back if need be. Consider it an experiment until, shall we say the weekend then I'll throw up a poll to decide which way to keep it.
That sound okay?
Xx
Cheers for trying, Jim.
On the original problem:
I thought everything got marked as read only if you idled on one page/thread for more than 15 mins, not just by being logged in for that long. That's how it always was with me, so how come it's different for Mons?
This must mean that now I can log in to read only a few threads, then come back later and the ones I've not read will be still unread? I must test this!
If it works, it solves my biggest problem with the forum. No need to have a second browser to check individual threads now!
I'm so used to being able to leave for 15 minutes or longer and come back knowing that all that will be left is stuff posted while I was away.
I'm sure I'll get used to it but right now? Omg no likey .
Yes. It's flocking great, TBH. I love you Jimmy Jimmy, oh Jimmy Jimmy... why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why oh why, do fools fall...
But the stuff that would have vanished now appears under a line that says "The threads below have not been updated since your last visit but still contain unread posts."
Is this in the 'new posts' list? Because I don't use that and, ashamedly, cannot seem to find it >.<.