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Dwarden · Post by **Dwarden** » 06 Oct 2005, 17:37

what's expiration interval for forum before "unread" posts become read? ... i was reading forum then all of sudden icon "read latest" points to "no new post since your last visit" ... ?!

AF · Post by AF » 06 Oct 2005, 20:48

It must be dependant on how you have cookies set up in your browser and on some peoples machines, how their internet is setup and what browser.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 06 Oct 2005, 22:47

No... I'm pretty sure it's random... I went away for 5 days without Internet... came back, all the new stuff was unread... next day I started reading stuff... halfway through the day suddenly everything is all marked as unread... including new posts from that morning... I've had it happen on multiple computers (no assigned stations at work) with IE and Firefox where it just randomly marks everything as read... it's an account, server side setting tied to your login so I doubt it's a cookie issue...

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 06 Oct 2005, 23:31

It works fine for me. The timeout time seems to be about five minutes of inactivity.

Dwarden · Post by **Dwarden** » 06 Oct 2005, 23:54

Gnome wrote:It works fine for me. The timeout time seems to be about five minutes of inactivity.

5 is quite low ... hmm i hope it will be at least 15 soon ...

PauloMorfeo · Post by **PauloMorfeo** » 07 Oct 2005, 09:59

Dwarden wrote:what's expiration interval for forum before "unread" posts become read? ... i was reading forum then all of sudden icon "read latest" points to "no new post since your last visit" ... ?!

You must have shutdown the browser and opened it up back again.

The info on what's new seems to be stored in the browser after connecting to PHPbb server (probably cookies that last that browser session) and the server marks all of those as already read. So, if you shutdown the browser, you loose the info on what's new and in the server they will be marked as already read.

I've done things like not shuting down the PC from one day to the next as to not shuting down the browser so i wouldn't loose the info on what's new.

I use Firefox and i think Konqueror and Mozilla bahave similarly. Other browsers may handle the cookies diferently.

Paladin_za · Post by **Paladin_za** » 07 Oct 2005, 11:50

I get the same thing, but maybe I'm a forum noob or there's a bug.

I come to forums and see that for example general and bugs have unread posts.

I go to general forum and view a thread.

When I go back to the main board and then to the bugs forum - all the new posts are marked as viewed. So I kinda have to look at the dates posted to see what was new.

AF · Post by AF » 07 Oct 2005, 14:42

5 minutes is too low, I've closed the browser and opened it back up again to fidn new posts are still highlighted, but this is happenign less and less nowadays as if someone is pushign down the timeout and it's annoying. It's a combination of that, browser cookie settings, and a random element.

Granted this si a phpBB problem as darkstars uses punBB which hasnt had any such problems ;s

Archangel of Death · Post by **Archangel of Death** » 07 Oct 2005, 21:54

Hmm, I don't have dwarden's problem at all. But if I hit that go to first new post button its all over.

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 09 Oct 2005, 11:43

I have this problem. When ever I close my browser I loose all the unread threads. Very annoying. Dunno if it can be fixed at all, but it REALLY peeves me off. It happens in FIrefox and IE for me.

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