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(Message started by: John_Gaughan on Jan 22^nd, 2004, 5:19am)

Title: "New Message in Forum" Indicator
Post by John_Gaughan on Jan 22^nd, 2004, 5:19am

I have an idea -- how about on the main forum screen having it display what forums have new posts? It does this within the forum, but not on the main screen. This would make it easier to find new posts.

I'll even put my money where my mouth is and contribute code.

Title: Re: "New Message in Forum" Indicator
Post by towr on Jan 22^nd, 2004, 6:16am

euhm.. the main forum screen _does_ show which forums have new posts.. At least on my computer they do (perhaps if you had a caching problem it might not)

Title: Re: "New Message in Forum" Indicator
Post by John_Gaughan on Jan 22^nd, 2004, 8:39am

Mine just says the date of the last post. I don't have a caching problem, I make sure Mozilla always grabs the latest version of a page.

Title: Re: "New Message in Forum" Indicator
Post by towr on Jan 22^nd, 2004, 9:03am

new messages:http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/YaBBImages/on.gif
no new messages:http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/YaBBImages/off.gif

Admittedly on a high resolution (where the images are small) the difference is hard to see..

Title: Re: "New Message in Forum" Indicator
Post by John_Gaughan on Jan 22^nd, 2004, 9:24pm

Ah, thank you, I did not notice that. On a totally different subject, my resolution is 1600 by 1200 ;-)

Title: Re: "New Message in Forum" Indicator
Post by John_Gaughan on Jan 27^th, 2004, 6:24am

How about making the new message indicator something more noticeable, like red, instead of blue?

Title: Re: "New Message in Forum" Indicator
Post by william wu on Jan 29^th, 2004, 12:26am

done

Title: Re: "New Message in Forum" Indicator
Post by John_Gaughan on Jan 29^th, 2004, 6:14am

Thank you William, that is much easier to see.

Title: Re: "New Message in Forum" Indicator
Post by Icarus on Jan 29^th, 2004, 5:50pm

And quite a shock to see these glaring pink things unexpectedly appearing.

Oh, well - you can't please everyone! ;)