New Posts marked as read..
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New Posts marked as read..
All day today, whenever I visit, I read a few posts and then it marks every single one of them as read. I'm still logged in though. Any reason why it would do this?
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phpBB's implementation of read post tracking is pretty poor. Usually you'll get the opposite whereby phpBB will just simply stop marking your posts as read.
It uses a cookie stored on your PC, and the cookie of course has a maximum size so you need to delete it every so often. Tracking them via DB would be better IMO but hey ho
It uses a cookie stored on your PC, and the cookie of course has a maximum size so you need to delete it every so often. Tracking them via DB would be better IMO but hey ho
I'm not impressed by the development or the lack thereof of phpBB version 3.
I've currently been using and somewhat loving Simple Machine Forums, which I believe is a branch off of another forum that I totally hated when back when. SMF is cool. It kind of has my most favorite feature, which is to track which topics you have posted in and see on one page what topics have new posts in.
It is kind of like the 'Notify me when a reply is posted', but it doesn't suck. I'm currently wanting for the version 1.1 of SMF to be released, but there seems to be a slow down of noticable development.
I really can't see why all of the free forum developers can get together, get their act together and make a damn awesome forum to rival vBulletin. That would never happen as they would most likely fight over how something should be implemented and nothing would be done. I'll say, if they only used a similar code base and just branched off of it and adding features to the main whenever a decision is passed. I can dream. I think they also want to be able to make the decisions on what features are implemented in what version.
I've currently been using and somewhat loving Simple Machine Forums, which I believe is a branch off of another forum that I totally hated when back when. SMF is cool. It kind of has my most favorite feature, which is to track which topics you have posted in and see on one page what topics have new posts in.
It is kind of like the 'Notify me when a reply is posted', but it doesn't suck. I'm currently wanting for the version 1.1 of SMF to be released, but there seems to be a slow down of noticable development.
I really can't see why all of the free forum developers can get together, get their act together and make a damn awesome forum to rival vBulletin. That would never happen as they would most likely fight over how something should be implemented and nothing would be done. I'll say, if they only used a similar code base and just branched off of it and adding features to the main whenever a decision is passed. I can dream. I think they also want to be able to make the decisions on what features are implemented in what version.
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- RobertGonzalez
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