How do you get the red "new" to come up on new threads ...?

[Caron]

Not important, but just wondering ...

[SeanMacGabhann]

it should happen automatically - usual reason for not happening is that you are not logged in?

[hibbs]

Unfortunately I cannot get the red 'new' to appear, I am logged in (and yes I have tried logging out and logging back in...just in case you suggest that one) ;-) Any suggestion greatly appreciated. Ta.

[mockney piers]

What browser do you use?

[hibbs]

Safari, should I switch to Firefox?

[mockney piers]

Ooh, Mac stuff, can't really help there, but do give firefox a go.

I don't know if there's a way to clear the cache in safari options or something like that? The 'new's work fine on the missus' macbookything.

[hibbs]

Now your getting way to techi for me, I give Safri a go.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I'm suspecting it's Safari

It works fine on both Firefox and IE. And on my nokia phone's browser. Safari isn't necessarily a MAC thing - iut's available on Windows but if you can download Firefox hibbs I would recommend it

And yes I sympathise - not knowing about the "new"s is frustrating

[SeanMacGabhann]

Hmm - just downloaded Safari and logged in to the forum - everything looked tickedy boo with the "new" signs in all the right places

[Keef]

Are there any glitches with the forum in the last couple of days? First it has been really slow and sometimes refused to load at all on my home computer, which is usually nice and quick.

Secondly, for 2 days I hadn't seen a "new" next to the general issues section. I went in there intending to start a thread about the lack of interesting stuff happening in ED, and found that there were sh!t loads of new posts/threads (all showing the new next to them).

[mockney piers]

The news have always been a bit glitchy, especially following loungings and so on, but I've been getting a few timeouts as well this week.

[Mark]

hmmm, the people who I host the server with moved servers a couple of days ago but assured me there would be no issues. As Sean said the new thing can be a bit temperamental, trying going to the home page http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/index.php?4 and clicking "Reset new posts" next to all the headings, this will obviously start afresh but might make things better until I find out exactly what's wrong.

I'll do a clean up of the system tonight to see if things improve but please let me know when a problem happens so that I can report it, if you could let me know:

1) the url/website address you were going to e.g. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?9,84658

2) the time you did it

3) what error message you got

then we can look at the log files for that time and try to match things up. Thanks for letting me know.

[Floating Onion]

I can confirm the Safari on the Mac will play nicely with the forum. Never had a problem with the new alerts.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Admin

I know it's known that the red "new"s happen after a thread is lounged - do you think everyone inherits the unread flag from whoever does the lounging - ie if you are fully up to speed with all threads when you lounge something, no-one notices, but if there are a few outstanding we all get the.

Fr'example had you read up to the final monica posting on the EDF drinks thread when you lounged the Michael Gambon thread?

[Administrator]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Fr'example had you read up to the final monica

> posting on the EDF drinks thread when you lounged

> the Michael Gambon thread?

No I had not read up to that one. I shall now mark all threads and messages as read, then move something to the Lounge. Here goes...

[Administrator]

Has that changed anything?

[SeanMacGabhann]

well, I had no resets, so that looks good

[Asset]

can you tell me why sometimes the 'new' is in red and sometimes in blue?

[SeanMacGabhann]

my understanding is that red means new since you last read a message and that blue means that SOME new since you last read or posted..

[Mark]

oh no, the red new e.g. new means the whole thread is new or there are new messages in that thread since you last looked. If you click the red new it will take you to the first of the unread messages.

The blue new is a browser specific thing, if you've click on the red new or have read the last messages then clicked the back button on the browser then you'll probably see it.

[Asset]

no, cause I never use the back button on this site.

[KalamityKel]

Erm... 2day I'm experiencing the no red bit on threads that I post on as in I post and it doesn't show up with "new" even when I refresh the page. It doesn't happen when others post only on my posts... ???

[Keef]

That's because the point of the "new" is to show you when someone has written something you haven't read. You wrote your posts, so don't really need a "new". Or am I missing the point here?

[KalamityKel]

I understand that Keef. But I've always had the "new" bit come up before. 2day it is doing it completely randomly even saying there's new posts by different ppl when there isn't anything there :|

[East Dulwich Angst]

Unless It was a very busy day today, I came home & found....

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