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shiznatix
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how does phpbb do unread topics, like there is a new post so its yellow or whatever. how does phpbb do that?
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uses your last visit time (different from your last session time) and uses a cookie to store the thread id and time of your viewing of it for all "new" threads...

Olympus is making that a seperate table, which will fix a few bugs I get every once in a while....



and with that... 12,000 posts bishes!
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w00t for feyd on the trillian posts!
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