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John_Gaughan
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New Message Marker
« on: Oct 8th, 2004, 8:42am » |
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I just loaded up this site, and several forums had the red marker for new messages. Two of them, on loading the forum, had no threads with new message markers. Unfortunately I closed those tabs before checking dates, except I did notice one said the latest message was last evening.
Reloading the main page cleared the flags. I always open forums in new tabs, so I could go back and see that the hard forum, for example, was marked on the main page but had no new messages inside the forum. Odd.
Oh, by the way, I set Firefox to check for page updates on each load. I keep my cache settings fairly restrictive to avoid situations such as this.
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Re: New Message Marker
« Reply #1 on: Oct 8th, 2004, 11:32am » |
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It could be some threads where moved, it flags the forum as having a new post/thread, but the thread doesn't actually have new posts..
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Re: New Message Marker
« Reply #2 on: Oct 8th, 2004, 9:12pm » |
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Yes, I have observed that if someone posts to a thread, but then deletes the post after realizing they made a mistake which invalidates the entire post, the thread still gets marked aa newly posted. I can imagine that the same thing happens to entire forums.
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Re: New Message Marker
« Reply #3 on: Oct 9th, 2004, 2:10pm » |
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Having just tested Icarus' hypothesis (by creating a temporary account, logging in under that name, posting a message, deleting that message and then deleting that account), I can report that neither the thread nor the forum got a "new" marker. So if deleted posts are the cause, there's something more to it than that...
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Re: New Message Marker
« Reply #4 on: Oct 20th, 2004, 6:20am » |
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I think Icarus' idea is correct. I think you misunderstood what he meant -- the marker does go away, but depending on when you load the pages, the markers might not match up. I load pages in new tabs most of the time, sometimes I go 5-10 minutes before loading the main page and loading a specific forum. This is plenty of time for someone to delete a post, removing the "new" marker.
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