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Repeating an old request from a few years ago: This morning, The Weird and The Wonderful were flagged with an orange bullet: New post(s) in this forum. None were in sight, not among the first 50. None on page two, entries 51-100. None on page thre ... On page seventeen, entries 801-850, there was a new entry! I can't tell what kept me pressing 'Next' for that long, I just did. I don't do that very often; usually I give up search for the new post after five or six 'Next'. So I wish that in the list of pages (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >) there was some indication: This page has new posts! Unfortunaely, orange color page number is already taken to indicate 'Current page'. What about underscore? In order to put the orange bullet on the forum selector, you must have identified the new posts, so it cant possibly take much extra work to use the same information to tell on which page the new entries appear! An alternative is to provide a forum specific list of 'Most recent posts'. That was tried for a little while, but either, it was global or it was Lounge specific; I don't remember. I'd prefer a list of recent entries in the currently selected forum.
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Repeating an old request from a few years ago: This morning, The Weird and The Wonderful were flagged with an orange bullet: New post(s) in this forum. None were in sight, not among the first 50. None on page two, entries 51-100. None on page thre ... On page seventeen, entries 801-850, there was a new entry! I can't tell what kept me pressing 'Next' for that long, I just did. I don't do that very often; usually I give up search for the new post after five or six 'Next'. So I wish that in the list of pages (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >) there was some indication: This page has new posts! Unfortunaely, orange color page number is already taken to indicate 'Current page'. What about underscore? In order to put the orange bullet on the forum selector, you must have identified the new posts, so it cant possibly take much extra work to use the same information to tell on which page the new entries appear! An alternative is to provide a forum specific list of 'Most recent posts'. That was tried for a little while, but either, it was global or it was Lounge specific; I don't remember. I'd prefer a list of recent entries in the currently selected forum.
You can put '*' in the search box and it should find the post. But WTF, 2 1/2 years for the active participant to post a response? Perhaps a record of some sort? :)
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Repeating an old request from a few years ago: This morning, The Weird and The Wonderful were flagged with an orange bullet: New post(s) in this forum. None were in sight, not among the first 50. None on page two, entries 51-100. None on page thre ... On page seventeen, entries 801-850, there was a new entry! I can't tell what kept me pressing 'Next' for that long, I just did. I don't do that very often; usually I give up search for the new post after five or six 'Next'. So I wish that in the list of pages (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >) there was some indication: This page has new posts! Unfortunaely, orange color page number is already taken to indicate 'Current page'. What about underscore? In order to put the orange bullet on the forum selector, you must have identified the new posts, so it cant possibly take much extra work to use the same information to tell on which page the new entries appear! An alternative is to provide a forum specific list of 'Most recent posts'. That was tried for a little while, but either, it was global or it was Lounge specific; I don't remember. I'd prefer a list of recent entries in the currently selected forum.
If you are the last to post in a forum it gets the orange ball but it shows no message at all as new. Might it be what happened?
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Repeating an old request from a few years ago: This morning, The Weird and The Wonderful were flagged with an orange bullet: New post(s) in this forum. None were in sight, not among the first 50. None on page two, entries 51-100. None on page thre ... On page seventeen, entries 801-850, there was a new entry! I can't tell what kept me pressing 'Next' for that long, I just did. I don't do that very often; usually I give up search for the new post after five or six 'Next'. So I wish that in the list of pages (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >) there was some indication: This page has new posts! Unfortunaely, orange color page number is already taken to indicate 'Current page'. What about underscore? In order to put the orange bullet on the forum selector, you must have identified the new posts, so it cant possibly take much extra work to use the same information to tell on which page the new entries appear! An alternative is to provide a forum specific list of 'Most recent posts'. That was tried for a little while, but either, it was global or it was Lounge specific; I don't remember. I'd prefer a list of recent entries in the currently selected forum.
I believe that an orange bullet continues to appear after a spam post is purged from a forum, in which case searching for a new post could turn up nothing.
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If you are the last to post in a forum it gets the orange ball but it shows no message at all as new. Might it be what happened?
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Not in this case - there was a new entry (not from me!) 800+ posts down, on page 17. I don't think that poster can expect very many follow ups! This thing you point out, that your own posts cause an orange bullet, but the post isn't flagged as new (to you), has bugged me, too. Why should the poster be treated differently from everybody else? Several times, I have searched through the pages to see if there is possibly some other new post as well, not just mine, often without finding anything. Again: In such cases, having a marker on the pages with new posts would have been very convenient.
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I believe that an orange bullet continues to appear after a spam post is purged from a forum, in which case searching for a new post could turn up nothing.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.I have been suspecting that, too. Not only for spam, but also if the author deletes the entry. Not in this case, though, as there was a new post on page 17, 800+ posts down the list. I wish they wouldn't count purged posts as new, but not knowing anything about the underlaying data structure, I'd accept a claim from the developers / maintainers that it would require significantly more processing for the 99,99% of the requests when there is no purged entries. I guess you could add a 'purged' flag to the data records search for flagging the forum, and skip those entries. Often, modifications to a data structure - even as small as adding a flag - could have consequences far beyond what you first would expect. E.g. you must ensure that the flag is always set when appropriate; that could affect several modules. The information is already stored somewhere; making another copy of the same info is bad database practice; it should be normalized. ...And so on. If the maintainers claim similar problems in using the 'New posts exist' information (causing the orange bullet) to tag another element in the user interface, based on the identity of the new post(s), I'd sure like to see an explanation of why it is 'undoable' or requires an extraordinate amount of processing power.
