Hi Lawrie,

Thank you for your input...

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Hi Andrew,
umm, something doesn't seem quite right to me...

On the old forum, and all the other fora I frequent, if I went into an area and checked for unread posts, I'd get a highlight to show which threads I needed to visit. I'd maybe visit some of the threads with a view to coming back for the others I was interested in if time was a bit short and it would all be OK.

But, on this new forum it seems (and I stand to be corrected because I haven't yet absolutely confirmed it) that if I come back to the forum to read the posts I hadn't seen on my last visit, they are no longer listed as unread...

Can this be confirmed, and if possible corrected, please?


The way it currently works is this:

On the main forum list, the forum icons are grey if the forum is 'unread' or yellow if the forum is 'read'. There are two ways to make a forum 'read'.

Either...
1. Open the forum.
2. Double-click on the icon.

A forum becomes 'unread' again if there are new posts in it since the last time you read it.

(Note: If you enter a 'yellow' forum, and then use your browser's back button to return to the forum list, the forum will still be yellow - this is because you are viewing the previous page that your browser has cached, rather than submitting new information to the forum. If you use the Index button to return, or refresh your browser than it turns grey.)

Within a forum, 'new topics' or 'topics with new posts' have a yellow folder icon and a bold font. A "New" topic is defined as one that is "New since your last visit to the forum board".

This is basically the same way that the old forum worked, except that the old forum had light bulb icons. The old forum also used purple text for "visited" links - this isn't something that is stored in the forum database, but is a 'browser thing' (i.e. clearing your browser history will turn the purple links back to blue). It tended to look a bit messy. We could implement that easily though.

Perhaps you could post in links to other forums that work the way you want, and we could take a look at them...?


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Just found another problem, dunno if there's something strange at my end or if there's something to look for...

I'm using Win7 Pro and IE8 at the moment - normally I'm on XP and FireFox but today I must use my Win7 box.

Anyhow, I can't seem to see any of the buttons in posts. E.G. when I go to post this message I have to watch the cursor and wait for it to change to a hand before I know I'm over a button - there are no outlines or text - I gotta guess which button I'm over.

I found the right one by by accident on my last post...

I've changed themes (various aero, high contrast, Win7 standard and so on) to no avail. Checked colour settings, calibrated the display and other stuff - still no buttons - is this a coding problem related to IE or am I still looking for something at my end.

For what it's worth, I probably won't be using this computer again for a while after today but I'd still like to get it sorted.


Hmmm.... that's very strange, and I don't know what the explanation is. Can you post a screenshot of what you're seeing? One thing - you say that you are using IE 8 on Windows 7, and I don't think that is possible, has to be IE 9 or 10.

One thing you should try is pressing Ctrl+F5 (force refresh). By itself, F5 is a refresh (reloads the page), however Ctrl+F5 also re-loads any linked files that may be cached by your browser.

Let us know what you find.

Andrew
PG Music Inc.