Opening a new thread About This Page:

[joyjoy]

I love the feature that will open a thread you've read before to the latest post. However, I have found that opening a thread I've never read often shoots me down to like the 3rd to last post, which means I have to scroll up to the top. I've tested this for a week or so now, becuase I thought maybe I was mistaken and had read the thread before. I know for sure there are some threads I've never looked at, and opening them does not show the first post. Do I have some setting wrong or something?
Thanks.

[DVC_Don]

Hi there. If you click on the left side, on the title, you are started at the top of the thread. If you click on the right side under "last post" it takes you to the last post made since you were last online whether you read that post or not.

[DVC_Don]

I've been trying this for the past day and paying more attention. My above post was wrong. I have not quite figured it out here.

[joyjoy]

Yeah, I just came back here (didn't realize you'd posted again) because now I know for SURE that I had never opened Steve's Color Test thread in the Sunroom. I just opened it and it shot me down to the second to the last post. Oh, well. No biggie.

[Colexis Mom]

I'm not sure if it has to do when you are "logged" on. Even though you may not have visited that post, that's where the post ended (timewise) when you logged off the last time Does that make sense? I've noticed the same thing too and was also trying to figure out what was going on.

[joyjoy]

Marnie,
That must be it, it's all I can think of. It's getting annoying, though. If it is a "brand new" thread, it will show, say, 3 replies and 3 in red that indicates they're all new (to me.) Then I'll open a thread in a forum I never read, like the DVC forum, just to check. There are threads there that were started days ago but I've never read, and they'll have 8 at the number of replies, but 4 in red. When opened it goes to the post it thinks is new to me. I guess there is a glitch somewhere that "thinks" if you're online, you've read all the posts available at that time. That's nuts. Well, maybe some people have that kind of time, but not me. It's getting so that I'm not even reading this board as much because I'm tired of having to scroll through a bunch of posts to get to the top of a thread! Anyhow, good observation on your part, I think you nailed it.

[Jennifer Marx]

Hi, Melanie!

Dave and I spent some time this evening trying to figure this out. The behavior you're talking about (jumping to last posts, or near to last posts) happens when you've read a thread already and new replies have been added since you last read it. So if you're getting this on posts you haven't read, somehow the system is being told you read it. Do you, or have you ever, clicked the Mark all read link by chance? Or do you use the Previous and Next buttons and the top and bottom of a thread?

Thanks,

[joyjoy]

Hi, Jennifer -
Thanks for looking into this, I know you and Dave are busy. I've never clicked on the "mark all as read" button, nor do I use the Previous or Next buttons. Is what Marnie suggested - that the system somehow thinks I've read posts just because I was logged in at the time - plausible? I am 100% certain that this thing happens to threads I have not read. Like I said, I tested it by opening threads in forums I never read (Well. Not until then, anyway).
Anyhow, thanks for the help.

[Jennifer Marx]

I made a change in the configuration settings. Let me know if it helped or hurt!

Thanks,

[joyjoy]

Neither, I guess. I just opened a SQOTD thread that I know I've never opened and it opened to the 3rd from last post. Don't worry about it, Jennifer, it doesn't really seem to bother anyone else and I know ya'll have got other things to worry about. I appreciate it, though.

[Jennifer Marx]

I do care, Melanie, and I want you to be happy here. I just wish I knew what the solution was. I'll keep looking!