Recent changes to behavior of "New"

Question

A few days ago, I noticed an annoying change to the way the "New" links (scattered about various places on most pages) work. Previously, these seem to have produced a list of all the unread posts. I could read them, click "New" again to see anything posted since I began, and then click "Mark all topics as read." When I returned to the forum, I'd repeat this, and I could be sure to see all the new posts.
Now, though, "New" seems to produce a list of topics since my last visit. This is more in keeping with the name of the link, but it's less useful, because there seems to be a short timeout on what constitutes a "visit." The result is that if I post a reply that takes a while to write, links to subsequent pages of the search stop working, so I have to click "Active" and guesstimate about what the last post was that I'd read. Each thread after that point is also affected, since the forum now seems to think that I've read everything.
This is all getting quite annoying, and I hope the forum moderators will switch it back to the way it worked before, or at least provide a new link (say, "Unread") that works the way the "New" link used to work. Thanks.

Answer 1

jasonwryan wrote:
Yep: if I don't log on early enough in the morning (approx 12 hours after last visiting the boards), then instead of 3-4 pages of items under New, I get half a dozen or so--which I am assuming indicates that my timeout has been reset as srs5694 and Tribly are experiencing.
FWIW, my timezone is set to UTC+12 with Daylight savings enabled.
Sorry, I think I misread the original post and interpreted "timeout" to mean the login session expiring after 30 minutes. Based on the way you're using it, I think we're talking about different things. For me, as long as I keep my session active, "New" acts as I expect: it has all threads containing posts that I have not read. If my session expires and I log back in, "New" contains only those threads that have new posts since the session expired. If the session expires while I was on, say, page 2 of the previous "New" list, then when I log back in the page does not exist, since the current "New" list is only one page long. Perhaps that's what the original post was about? I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what he meant.
(btw UTC+1 w/  daylight savings)
Last edited by jakobcreutzfeldt (2013-03-13 12:09:24)