phpbb2: View posts since last visit behavior

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No changes have been made here. But I wonder if there should be:

It always strikes me as a stupid button. You stray between no posts showing at all if you have had a session issue, to pages and pages of posts being referenced each time you click the button, and a lot of forumers like me will be clicking the button every darn minute to see the latest.

On my downsizer forum I am experimenting with it always returning 72 hours of posts, and I'm consider implementing something similar across all forums. But there are plenty of options in this area, so I want peoples thoughts.

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I use the VPSLV on every forum I go on, I find it invaluable.  It works just fine as it is imo.  So long as the browser is open I can still view the latest posts, even if I have closed the tab with the forum in, which is ideal for me.  If I want it reset, then I can simply restart the browser.  I assume that is the same for all.

A 'view posts in last 24 hours' button I guess could be useful for people that don't have much time to go through posts but want to check on their forum...so they can return later for a more thorough read.  That's all I can think of.
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I like the idea of keeping it as it runs, maybe with the exception you choose how recent from one day to a week via the admin panel or user control panel/edit profile
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[MarkB]

I like it the way it is.

Though the cookie that tracks it does seem to have some quirks on my forum.

I've set up the drop down view posts in last x days button to search further back
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The cookies can only track 150 topics per user, and cookies are a bit iffy anyway.

phpbb3 has the option of server side tracking, and whilst I add extra database bits with the greatest of reluctance, this area is one that I really do thinks about doing.

Even on the server side though I guess there have to be limits. You can't actually track which of 100,000 topics, 10,000 people have read without some considerable grief.
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It might have to be:

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/cpp/cpp_mfc/bits/article.php/c7429

I wrote that a long time back, it would be funny if it came back in php.
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As a point of interest I just wrote code to review my topic tracking on downsizer.net, the code there is the same as here and indeed the same as phpbb2.023 as I would not tamper with code I did not understand.

My downsizer results are virtually complete nonsense
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I think I will introduce an option to admin/configure for how newposts will behave, plus I will add:

search_id=recent
search_id=lastvisit

That will allow both behaviors as explicit options. That should keep us all happy.
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