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[dashcat]

New Posts Bug?

[SpaceBass]

I don't think this is new, actually. The unread posts are kept using cookies and/or visit sessions. When you close your browser, those get cleared, along with the unread post information. You could try using a tabbed browser like Firefox...when I accidentally close my UF tab, as long as I don't close the whole program I can re-open a tab for UF and the session/cookie state will be preserved. Eventually, I'll try to add a mod to keep unread posts unread until you actually read them.

[joebrent]

In IE6, so long as you don't actually close the original UF window, the little brown 'unread posts' icon should still be there, so you can leave UF to follow a link, just don't close the window and go all the way back to UF when you're done. Of course, you could also just right-click to open any link in a new window, do what you will with the new one, and keep the UF window minimized for safekeeping.

[jchillerup]

/me hates that system
/me KNOWS that it is possible to define cookies to be stored server-side

[Wishi-san]

Well, no, cookies can not be stored server-side, if you are just storing data on the server then it isn't a cookie.

The idea of the cookie stored by the forums is simply to track you while you're here. It's obviously been something that's been successful or I'm sure phpbb would have changed to another system.

It's possible that there could be a mod to have a preference where you can manually say when you've read the posts.

[joebrent]

[SpaceBass]

[jchillerup]

[AnthraX101]