phpbb2: Does view newest post work for you?

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I am reviewing this area in phpbb2 and it strikes me by my own experience and looking at the code that when you click on the little "View newest post" icon that appears to the left of the topic in places like "View Posts Since Last Visit" does not end up on the post it should. It will land much earlier in a thread based on when you last logged onto a forum and not based on when you last viewed that thread.

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[MarkB]

That is exactly how it works for me.

I logout and back in many times in the day so as to keep it in check.

Fine on slow moving topics, but no good when the topic is very active and I want to stay logged in.

I then use the last post icon and scroll back to the last post 'I've' seen.

Are you able to fix this?
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I have fixed it on downsizer. It is not a hard change, read the cookies at the start of viewtopic rather than later, so the right info is available. If the cookies give a topic read time then use it, otherwise do what is currently done. Trivial really.

It all ties in though with the other cookie change I have made on downsizer, and hence it may as well wait till Saturday for installation on myff as there are a few files involved. This will give a chance for anyone on downsizer to scream if there are issues.

It is another of those areas where I end up going back to the official code and double checking that this is a phpbb2 bug and not something we have broken. It is really odd that such elementary issues could still be there.

Makes me wonder even more about how much is lurking in phpbb3.
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[MarkB]

I'll look out for the change
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[MarkB]

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Yes, in essence those cookies now work, but the code to make them faster needs to go in.
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All the code for this seem to we working on the office.

But given on a lot of levels this is quite a major change, I'm still planning on waiting till Saturday to put it in.

It is amazing to think that this change might save 15gb of bandwidth on the servers a month! Which whilst not a motivation here, is always welcome and indicative of the slice of extra speed people should get.

I have a 20mbs connection and so would be lying if I said I can really perceive the change, but the maths dictates that it is there and might represent a saving of up to 20% of the data transfer involved when viewing a page, as what matters is the uncached data on a page. e.g. logos only get downloaded once unless changed.
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[robinb]

Hi,

Yes it has been working on my forum on phpbb 2

I have just moved to phpbb 3 and the next post buttons does not appear there.

Is this a planned fix ?

Using the prosilver template but with 1 alteration of the graphic logo to mine.

thanks

Robin...

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Not sure what you mean by "next post buttons"?
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[robinb]

When you are logged in to see the next unread post.

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I don't think that is a feature of phpbb3.
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