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Just returned from a 7 day holiday, opened up this forum, had at least 4 pages of "new content". Made it past page 2 (to about June 03), and then had to take care of a few things here. When I came back, the forum had logged me out (timeout?), and when you log out, it forgets all "new content". So you log in, and it says "there is nothing new for you". Great, now I never know what I missed between May 30th and June 03.... grrrrrrrrr :(

 

With email, you would still have all unread messages *sigh* Is there a way to change this behaviour? It has annoyed me in the past, but not as much as this time..

 

Edit: It's even worse, there is "no new content", but when I go f.i. into the "off topic" sub-forum, it still shows me threads as unread that I definitely already did read an hour ago. So I can't even just look at all the "unread" threads. Oh boy...

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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With email, you would still have all unread messages *sigh* Is there a way to change this behaviour? It has annoyed me in the past, but not as much as this time..

 

Your Settings -> General Settings -> Search Settings -> View New Content Method.

 

Set to "Show me all content I have not read".

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Your Settings -> General Settings -> Search Settings -> View New Content Method.

 

Set to "Show me all content I have not read".

 

Uh, that's great, now it shows me all messages I have *ever* not read:

 

New content

 

There are 1369 new entries

 

There is no way I have time to read that much ;)

 

Btw, part of the problem seems to be that somehow I get logged out of the forum every few minutes - sometimes I even get logged out right after I logged in. I don't know what changed the 7 days I was not here, but before my laptop worked just fine with the forum. Haven't tried the PC yet, but maybe its a browser setting? Cookies or something?

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Uh, that's great, now it shows me all messages I have *ever* not read:

 

Yeah, it's not much use when you first activate it, but after you "Mark all content as read" and check it periodically, it works better than the last-visit mode.

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Yeah, it's not much use when you first activate it, but after you "Mark all content as read" and check it periodically, it works better than the last-visit mode.

 

Yeah, done that now. (it took ages to compute the "new posts", too). Hopefully it works now better, e.g. it won't show me again posts I already read, and it won't start to log me out every 5 minutes, either (thank god for FF's password manager)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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