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Author Topic: Navigating the KivaFriends Forum: Issues of Organization, Fragmentation, Etc.  (Read 8315 times)
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« Reply To This #40 on: January 05, 2008, 11:55:17 PM »

Interesting that the "list of recent threads with unread posts" still does not show all posts. I thought that was fixed. I think it's a browser cookie issue (the little file your browser saves to remember your login/settings). I've seen other boards using similar software complain about lost unread topics, so it could be a bug that hasn't been squashed yet. I'll fiddle with the cookie settings and see if that does anything. Also if you haven't logged out for a while, try doing that, clearing your KF cookie in your browser setting and logging back in. I wonder if it's a problem where if you never log out, it doesn't place a time stamp or whatever on your cookie to determine all the new posts when you return on your next login.  Thinking



Glad to hear the toolbar being used. It is pretty handy Smiley
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« Reply To This #41 on: January 06, 2008, 12:10:28 AM »

Joe, you rawk!
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« Reply To This #42 on: January 06, 2008, 12:20:38 PM »

Interesting that the "list of recent threads with unread posts" still does not show all posts. I thought that was fixed. I think it's a browser cookie issue (the little file your browser saves to remember your login/settings). I've seen other boards using similar software complain about lost unread topics, so it could be a bug that hasn't been squashed yet. I'll fiddle with the cookie settings and see if that does anything. Also if you haven't logged out for a while, try doing that, clearing your KF cookie in your browser setting and logging back in. I wonder if it's a problem where if you never log out, it doesn't place a time stamp or whatever on your cookie to determine all the new posts when you return on your next login.  Thinking



Glad to hear the toolbar being used. It is pretty handy Smiley

Joe -  Just to give it a try, I logged out (as I usually do) and removed all my kivafriends cookies.  When I logged back in it showed only three threads having unread posts.  (They happened to be in Marketing, Suggestions and Lounge for what that is worth.)

I'll watch to see if there is any change in behavior over the next number of log-ins.

I don't know how flexible the program is, but the "show all recent posts"  (like Henry uses) does not readily indicate what thread the post is in nor is it easy to browse that thread from that particular post.  Any way to make that clearer would be an improvement.  Since so many posts are responding to an off topic conversation, this just perpetuates the off topic conversation.  Smiley

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« Reply To This #43 on: January 08, 2008, 06:26:50 AM »

Thanks for the info, Dan. I noticed some of the view permission settings for individual boards were not completely set. That was taken care of so let me know if you start seeing more threads pop up on the recent threads list.

On the log of "show all recent posts", there should be a line above each post that shows the section / title of thread the message is from. The bold link jumps directly to the post in the thread though and not the start of the thread. Would it be easier to jump to the top? I'm not sure why it defaults to jumping to the post in the thread that you just read in the log.

I tweaked a few other things overnight, and accidentally killed the forum for about 40 minutes in the process  Shocked  (sorry night owls and people in parts of the world where it's not 4am) Some cookies and personal forum display settings were also reset. Those options can be re-enabled (or disabled) by going into your profile or control panel and fiddling with the check boxes in the "Look and Layout" section.


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