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| blackfoxtrade |
 Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:49 am Post subject: An IdEa! |
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It would be really great if:
when someone adds a new post to a topic and you click it, it would direct you to the newest post/posts. Some forums have it and I really like it.
Is it doable or too difficult? |
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| Benjamin |
| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:54 am Post subject: |
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I'll have to look into this. I'm pretty sure there is something out there.
Actually we were looking at the modification that shows a bit of a blurb of the most recent post. This way you can see more what the post is about so you can click it if it seems interesting. |
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| Dave Rathbun |
| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:07 am Post subject: |
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Look for this icon:  You can find it on the index, and on search results. Click that icon to take you to the "newest reply" for that topic. The one caveat... it's the newest reply since you logged on (or started your current session). So if you see a newest reply icon, reply to it, and someone else replies to your reply, then the icon will still take you to the newest reply since you started your session, not the newest "unread" reply.
It's a standard feature of this board software.  |
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| Benjamin |
| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:10 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Dave!
It's pretty nice when the users know more than the Forum Administrator! |
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| Dave Rathbun |
| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| eInvesting Admin wrote: | | It's pretty nice when the users know more than the Forum Administrator! |
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| blackfoxtrade |
| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Dave Rathbun wrote: | Look for this icon: You can find it on the index, and on search results. Click that icon to take you to the "newest reply" for that topic. The one caveat... it's the newest reply since you logged on (or started your current session). So if you see a newest reply icon, reply to it, and someone else replies to your reply, then the icon will still take you to the newest reply since you started your session, not the newest "unread" reply.
It's a standard feature of this board software. |
I know that I'm not that stupid, you know. I meant that once you click on the topic that has a new post, then it directs you straight to the newest post/posts, so you don't have to look for it/them. |
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| blackfoxtrade |
| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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NeW IdEa!
In this forum you have the avatar option, it's great, BUT you can't upload avatars from your computer. Every now and then my url avatar expires and sometimes an ad comes to its place or something like that.
So the question is, can you do it? |
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| soma |
| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:10 am Post subject: |
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| Dave Rathbun wrote: | | eInvesting Admin wrote: | | It's pretty nice when the users know more than the Forum Administrator! |
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He is the phpBB doctor 
| blackfoxtrade wrote: | NeW IdEa!
In this forum you have the avatar option, it's great, BUT you can't upload avatars from your computer. Every now and then my url avatar expires and sometimes an ad comes to its place or something like that.
So the question is, can you do it? |
Photobucket.com!  |
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| Benjamin |
| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:21 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Soma. 
There are quite a few free image hosting sites where you can upload images and they'll pretty much keep them indefinetly.
The function for uploading images here is turned off because someone can use the feature for malicious means and also we need all the space on the server we can get.
You don't have too many restrictions for file size and dimentions when you point to an image. Just make sure it isn't too big that it effects the page or we'll have to remove it. |
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| Dave Rathbun |
| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| blackfoxtrade wrote: | | I know that I'm not that stupid, you know. I meant that once you click on the topic that has a new post, then it directs you straight to the newest post/posts, so you don't have to look for it/them. |
My apologies, I did not mean to imply that at all. There are quite a few folks that use phpBB forums that don't recognize that icon, or understand what it means and how it works. I certainly did not mean to insult anybody with my post. 
As far as getting exactly what you ask for, there are code modifications for phpBB that can be used to track every post that you have or have not read, and this feature is standard in the forthcoming release (phpBB 3.0 aka Olympus). The biggest issue is that the strategies used to implement that feature either require cookies (which I personally despise as a solution) or a flag in the database for every user for every post. As you can imagine, for a large board (10K+ users and 250K+ posts) that is a substantial amount of database space. I haven't reviewed how Olympus does the "read tracking" feature, and it is something that I intend to do. At some point. In my spare time. 
| soma wrote: | | Dave Rathbun wrote: | | eInvesting Admin wrote: | | It's pretty nice when the users know more than the Forum Administrator! |
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He is the phpBB doctor |
Hey, who gave that away... |
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| blackfoxtrade |
| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:46 am Post subject: NeW iDeA |
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There are quite many users that don't really use their accounts - I suggest that the forum closes all accounts which haven't been used during the first two months coz this eats up forum space (even if it is a tiny amount) and it disturbs to see so many inactive users in the tradaing sim rankings. coz its not like people couldn't view the forums without a username (which they hardly ever use). Oh, and when you do decide to do it then I would suggest an alert e-mail to the account user before closing the account.
what do you people think about it? |
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