Goto first unread post button hidden

[Miquel 'Fire' Burns]

May I ask why the button for the link to goto the first unread post is hidden (with CSS display:none). For someone like me, not having this link annoys me when trying to keep up with some topics because I have no clue where I last read the topic at time (and having poor memory doesn't help).

[Eric H. Jung]

Quixin, can you answer this one since you worked on the forums?

[quixin]

miquelfire, I believe the button you are refering to was replaced with a script that puts all new unread threads in bold text.  You will also see the word New: next to the topics title.  If you click directly on the word New:, you will be taken to the first unread message in that topic.

Hope this helps.

[Eric H. Jung]

But then don't you have to go into each forum to see if there are new messages? There is a "View New Posts" link in the upper-right (next to Inbox), but it never quite works for me.

[tanstaafl]

I think it only gives you the error when there are no new posts to view. I thought it was malfunctioning randomly too at first. I could be wrong though...

[tanstaafl]

Yeah, just confirmed - and this is so hilarious... I actually finally *read* the error message that it gives - is this the error you see?

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Sorry, an error occurred. If you are unsure on how to use a feature, or don't know why you got this error message, try looking through the help files for more information.

The error returned was:

Sorry, but we did not find any matches to display. Try again and broaden your search criteria. If you were searching for new posts since your last visit, it's possible that there are none to show.
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I never even noticed the last three sentences...   :hehe:

[quixin]

This was posted on the InvisionFree support board by a support member.

We're aware of View New Posts issues and are attempting to rectify them. We apologise for any inconvenience.

[Eric H. Jung]

Um, yeah, right. View New Posts hasn't worked since this forum was started. I see they're about as quick to fix that bug as I am to add FTP support into PasswordMaker :)

[quixin]

The 'View New Posts' button seems to finally be working for me.  Please try it out yourself and post your results here.

If this works, your going to have to go ahead and add that FTP support Eric. :D

Also, everyone may find this link very useful.  I bookmarked this page:

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[Miquel 'Fire' Burns]

The new 'link' doesn't work with middle clicking for a new tab. Considering how many tabs I can have with a forum... I have 10 now, and only four is not this forum actually. I'll check to see if the others will work for me.

[Eric H. Jung]

Preliminary results on "'View New Posts" -- seems it might work! miquelfire, what other forums do you frequent?

[Miquel 'Fire' Burns]

The "View New Posts" only seem to show the newest topic. Too bad it's only place I can go tab crazy here.

Right now, I frequent three othre forums, one IPB like here (at least here the skin doesn't lead itself as being IPB), one vBulletin forum for my webhost, and a custom made one.

[edit] This topic doesn't even appear... What logic is that using?

[Eric H. Jung]

OK, I just tried View New Posts and it says I don't have any--even thought the above post by miquelfire was new. So much for that :(

[Miquel 'Fire' Burns]

What I'm doing for now is that I made a bookmarklet in which shows the unread button. As of now, it kills the bold for the link as well, so I need to make it smarter in that case (just kill the style attribute if 'display: none' is in it's value basically)

[Eric H. Jung]

Can you share the bookmarklet with us?