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Geek Culture / Minor Forum Glitch: No New Post!

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Libervurto
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 18:43 Edited at: 28th Feb 2013 18:46
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I'm desperately trying to hold back all kinds of suggestions for forums fixes since Paul sorted out the tabs issue, don't want to make the TGC guys feel like if they fix one problem we bring up they have become our slaves! But this one is probably the most consistently annoying "feature" of the forum:



So?... Just show me the newest post then (like the link said), what's the fuss about? There's obviously some fail condition for finding an unread post because we end up here, so why send us to this page at all? Why not instead send us to the last post in the thread?


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Benjamin
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 18:50
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Agreed, I've never understood why it gives you an error page instead of just taking you to the last post in a thread. It doesn't even give you the option to go to the last post, either.

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The Zoq2
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 20:46
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I agree, this is pretty anoying. From what I understand, the error appears when a person on post moderation posts, but you click the link before the post has been aproved
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RedneckRambo
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 20:55
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Quote: "I agree, this is pretty anoying. From what I understand, the error appears when a person on post moderation posts, but you click the link before the post has been aproved"

There are other ways of course to. And one that I do nearly every single day and it drives me crazy. Sometimes I'll open the "newest post" in a seperate tab, then close that tab. If you try clicking newest post again, you get that error page. I've never understood why it doesn't just take you to the last post.

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Libervurto
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 21:19
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Quote: "There are other ways of course to. And one that I do nearly every single day and it drives me crazy. Sometimes I'll open the "newest post" in a seperate tab, then close that tab. If you try clicking newest post again, you get that error page. I've never understood why it doesn't just take you to the last post."

Yeah that's exactly what I did before making this thread.

PROGRAMMER SOLUTION: "Well why don't you just browse efficiently and not open so many tabs!?!"
Okay so I'm puppeteering here but I see this kind of obnoxious attitude from a lot of programmers. Seems like many programmers have control issues! *baddum tsh*


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Indicium
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 22:55
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Efficient browsing is opening lots of tabs if you ask me, saves spamming the back button.


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The Zoq2 pretty much has it. I think what happens is this: If you open a thread where a post is waiting to be approved but there are posts after it the system thinks you have seen the thread. The post gets approved and the new post button appears, you click it but because you've already been in the thread previously the system thinks you've already seen it all.

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BiggAdd
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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 10:19
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I think the message should be there, because some users actually might wonder why they can't find the new post after clicking the button.
(My experience as a web developer has taught me that users can be ruddy idiots sometimes!)

But there should be an option to disable that message in future I think! So it takes you to the newest post or last post (whichever is applicable).

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Libervurto
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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 16:34 Edited at: 1st Mar 2013 16:34
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Quote: "I think the message should be there, because some users actually might wonder why they can't find the new post after clicking the button.
(My experience as a web developer has taught me that users can be ruddy idiots sometimes!)"

That's true. How about this then?:



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TheComet
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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 16:45
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Quote: "Efficient browsing is opening lots of tabs if you ask me, saves spamming the back button."


What? There's a back button?

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 16:52
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Obese, that would be perfect. It can't be too difficult to implement really, given that that kinda box already exists for trying to post duplicate posts.

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TheComet
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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 17:24
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This here is also pretty annoying. It occurs when a newbie edits their post:



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Brendy boy
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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 17:32
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i think the same happens when someone edits their post and you click go to newest post, you don't actualy see the post that has been edited, instead you get that error page

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Libervurto
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Posted: 1st Mar 2013 18:58 Edited at: 1st Mar 2013 19:01
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@Brendy Boy - That's another issue it would solve then.

@TheComet - Now that would probably take a bit more work to fix. Maybe the old message should display until the edit is approved? Then how would you do that? Store the edited version within a hidden class, alongside the unedited version, and when the post is approved the text outside the hidden class is automatically deleted and the class tags removed? Something like that might work?


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