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From: Ontario Canada

Registered: 2003-10-23

Posts: 371

Re: messages

Just wanted to say that on the main section it shows last post from...
but not the last post subject.
This makes it hard to follow who is posting a reply to what on any board without opening each board to see what the last post was.

What happened to the user icons ?
They make the

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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: messages

Just wanted to say that on the main section it shows last post from...
but not the last post subject.
This makes it hard to follow who is posting a reply to what on any board without opening each board to see what the last post was.

What happened to the user icons ?
They make the

*I have a comment regarding messages and last post in thread.  The active threads are only on the screen for 1 visit.  I've noticed quite a slump in use since the change from Ikonboard.  Maybe a coincidence (folks on vacation/holiday), etc...but it'd be nice if there were at least a, say, 6-hour "hold-over" (if that's possible) time where active threads continue to show up for that long even if you've exited the board and come back later.

Seems it'd serve continuity and flow.  Honestly, I am having somewhat of a time keeping track.  It's like being struck with short-term memory.  It was nice having active threads still showing up around noon from 6:00 a.m. and thereabouts.

Just a suggestion/comment.

--Cindy

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--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

Posts: 3,669

Re: messages

It was nice having active threads still showing up around noon from 6:00 a.m. and thereabouts.

Is funny, I thought that was irritating, heh. Drove me nuts, actually. One moment you see gazillions of 'new posts' that one checked several times, and then... one minute later, they're all gone... At some arbitrary chosen timepoint, or so it seemed. Never understood how it worked.

Josh Cryer

Moderator

Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: messages

chat, there is a mod for that, but when I went and applied it, it screwed up the template and didn't look pretty (if you remember IkonBoard truncated the post topic, but the mod I used just stretches it, it's not pretty), I am definitely trying to restore that functionality, but it might take some time.

And user icons will come back in some form, I am looking at it. There doesn't seem to be a specific mod that does this, so I'll have to write it myself, too.

Cindy, I have also noticed what you are talking about. Well, let me clarify. When I load the page, there don't seem to be any "new topics" since I was last here, but being gone 6-8 hours that's simply impossible.

I am applying a modification to the php to make it so that all posts are mark unread, until you read them (or click "mark read"). Right now they expire after an hour (!), which I admit is very annoying and actually kind of unintuitive. If someone posts something, and you haven't read it an hour later, it claims it's read? Silliness!

So sorry Rxke, you're going to have to live with all those topics being "unread."

Unread means unread darnit!

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Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

Posts: 3,669

Re: messages

unread means unread

Well I agree, and I thought it worked, but must've been my impressin, not real. So I've no qualms wiith you changing behaviour...

What I *didn't* like was the fact that the Ikonboard system listed stuff I had already read as unread, and very stubbornly so..., so I clicked it again, only to discover there was nothing new, then, some hours later, same story etc. screenful of 'new posts' that were hours old, and read. Then all of a sudden (0600 local server time (?) that list got erased and it was empty.
Did not make sense at all.
In the end, I resorted to half-memorize the time of last posts... So I could see there were new posts when the last post time was changed, not the 'flag'

unread is indeed unread hatdammit! 

Josh Cryer

Moderator

Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: messages

I can't apply the patch until later, I mean, I could, but I wouldn't want to interrupt one of our busiest times of the day, I'm sorry about that. I'll set the session timeout to last a bit longer, though.

I set it to 24 hours. If you don't log in (or load the site) for 24 hours, all your posts will become "unread." I'll apply the patch tonight.

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.