Unread Posts

When I first log on to this board, I get a "Welcome, virginia" greeting that says I have "xx unread posts ". When I click on either that link or the "New Posts" link just below it, the actual number of posts that display is always significantly smaller. This morning my welcome said there were 71 unread posts but when I clicked that link, only 31 posts displayed. I closed the browser, opened a new one, and then clicked on the "New Posts" link and got the same results.

Am I missing some new posts or is there some reason a smaller number display?

 

You may see only 31 actual posts but the replies in them are also counted.

 

Hi Virginia

is this perhaps the difference between threads and posts? - like you saw 31 threads, but some of them had more than one new post in them?

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I'd like to suss if there's a way to stop the "new posts" missing out ones which I've already had a look at.

Unread posts, yes - that's clearly the ones not yet looked at.

But even with quicklinks > "new posts ", the ones I've already looked at have disappeared from the results... the only way I've found round this is to mark all forums read, then click on new posts: there aren't any but there's a link for posts made in the last 24hours. Using that link seems to show all the posts, including the ones already looked at.

Surely there must be a better way?


best wishes, HJ

 

This was discussed "many moons" ago.
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=49941&highlight=mark+forums+read
Hugh Jarss has described the procedure that works, although it takes more clicks than should be needed.

 

Thanks for the responses. Guess I didn't stop to think that there is a difference between "posts" and "threads ". Now I know - my mind is at ease.

 

what I tend to do on arriving at BBS is to look at the new stuff; find, say, half a dozen threads which I might be interested in; so I have a quick look at them to see what's going on - and then go back over them when I have a better idea of what's a-caring. Well chosen thread titles help of course ! But to get the real story, have to look at the actual posts...

(often find that it's useful to have more than one look at things - generally, not just BBS - coming back to something after mulling it over, and then having another look, often gives a different slant on a problem)

so if I then do quick links > new posts, the list I get is all the ones that I'm not interested in!

no big deal! - now I've discovered the dodge of marking all as read, then new posts > last 24 hours gives all the new stuff sorted time-wise whether or not I've already had a look at it - which is exactly what I'm after - better than trying to remember which forum(s) to browse (now was that one under Win98, or was it over in Hardware)


best wishes, HJ