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[Khatovar]

I frequent the EQ2 forum, yet everytime I enter the forum I have to re-sort the page by 'latest post' as it keeps forgetting and putting the posts in some random order (a cookie problem???)

I'm seeing the same thing with everything in the MMORPG General Discussion forums. Everything is sorted by "thread name" instead of "date" like the rest of the boards.

[Svpernova09]

I'm seeing the same thing with everything in the MMORPG General Discussion forums. Everything is sorted by "thread name" instead of "date" like the rest of the boards.

Sorry for the delay, should be fixed now. Let me know if anyone comes across this in any other areas.

[Owltoid]

It's probably working as intended, but it wouldn't be my choice of configuration.

When I'm at the Main Forums page I can see each subforum that has unread posts. However, that indicator won't go off until I've actually visited every topic in the subforum. What I would rather happen is if the indicator on the Main Forums page for new post was only lit up if there have been new posts since I last visited that subforum. That way I don't have to click on every new thread in General Discussion in order to get the indicator to mean anything when I'm on the Main Forums page. Otherwise I keep on going into General Discussion, seeing that there are the same threads I didn't want to read before (with no new posts), and never knowing if there is actual new posts since my last visit to the subforum.

Confusing enough?

[Owltoid]

Another thing about the new message indicator, it will go on if you post a new message to a thread, even if there aren't any other new posts. So if I post a message and then go to the Main Forums page the new message indicator will stay on until I go read what I just posted.

[Svpernova09]

It's probably working as intended, but it wouldn't be my choice of configuration.

When I'm at the Main Forums page I can see each subforum that has unread posts. However, that indicator won't go off until I've actually visited every topic in the subforum. What I would rather happen is if the indicator on the Main Forums page for new post was only lit up if there have been new posts since I last visited that subforum. That way I don't have to click on every new thread in General Discussion in order to get the indicator to mean anything when I'm on the Main Forums page. Otherwise I keep on going into General Discussion, seeing that there are the same threads I didn't want to read before (with no new posts), and never knowing if there is actual new posts since my last visit to the subforum.

Confusing enough?

This is working as intended, visit the sections you want, then mark all read :_)

[Svpernova09]

Another thing about the new message indicator, it will go on if you post a new message to a thread, even if there aren't any other new posts. So if I post a message and then go to the Main Forums page the new message indicator will stay on until I go read what I just posted.

I've been looking into this, no promises on a fix as of now.

[Noxxy]

Hey

Just noticed another small thing which isn't really a hassle but wanted to check anyway

Sometimes I log on as Noxxy, other times I just go into 'visitor mode' for a quick check of the posts

I have noticed that when I log on as Noxxy and I click a person's avatar, I get to see whatever their profile picture is plus their details - yet - when I am just a visitor and I click their avatar, I get all the person's details but no profile picture - even tried it on my own avatar and visitor mode definately doesn't show a profile picture - not sure if it's a privacy thing or not to stop lurkers or something

Thanks,

N0x

[Svpernova09]

Hey

Just noticed another small thing which isn't really a hassle but wanted to check anyway

Sometimes I log on as Noxxy, other times I just go into 'visitor mode' for a quick check of the posts

I have noticed that when I log on as Noxxy and I click a person's avatar, I get to see whatever their profile picture is plus their details - yet - when I am just a visitor and I click their avatar, I get all the person's details but no profile picture - even tried it on my own avatar and visitor mode definately doesn't show a profile picture - not sure if it's a privacy thing or not to stop lurkers or something

Thanks,

N0x

This is one of the few things I've configured this way. The general thinking is not displaying these images to visitors saves bandwidth, thus saving server resources How much does it save? meh, it may be trivial, but it was one of those "lets see if it matters" type of things.

[Khatovar]

Sorry for the delay, should be fixed now. Let me know if anyone comes across this in any other areas.

All good now, thanks

[Owltoid]

Another thing about the new message indicator, it will go on if you post a new message to a thread, even if there aren't any other new posts. So if I post a message and then go to the Main Forums page the new message indicator will stay on until I go read what I just posted.

Perhaps what I'm about to describe is related to the above problem, but I'm not sure. From the Main Forums page if I click on the thread title for the most recent post then everything works great and I go to the last unread post on that thread. However, if I then hit the Forums link at the top of every page to bring me back to the Main Forums section. Even if all threads are read in a subforum (the one I just visited) it still shows the indicator light for a new post. The only way to get that off is to visit the forums, where I find there are no new posts and I just needed to click on the subforum.

Other message boards I visit have the new post indicator go off as soon as you visit that forum, regardless if you've read all the threads (I mentioned this in another post and you said working as intended). I implore you to make these forums the same way as I feel not doing so is causing other issues, such as the one I just described. It's a bit of a pain to click on mark forum as read every single time (I know, I'm lazy).

With all these suggestion, thanks for your hard work Svpernova!