How do I view the most recent post/s in a thread that I have already visited?

Forums › Geekzone › How do I view the most recent post/s in a thread that I have already visited?

Zippity

683 posts

Ultimate Geek

#34132 19-May-2009 10:07

Where is the option/setting that I need to change/edit that will allow me to view the most recent posted comment in a thread?

At the moment, I always get to start at the original posting. This is very annoying, especially if there is more than one page in the tread

Is there a display option to show/label the number of posts in a thread?

freitasm

BDFL - Memuneh
79263 posts

Uber Geek

Administrator

ID Verified

Trusted

Geekzone

Lifetime subscriber

#215845 19-May-2009 10:22

Everywhere there's a link to a forum discussion there'll be a sequence corresponding to the page numbers. You can just click one of the numbers and go directly to the page number you want...

Zippity

683 posts

Ultimate Geek

#215853 19-May-2009 11:18

Sorry, but that aint good enough.

As with most other Forums I visit, I want to be able to skip all the previous posts/comments that I have already read in a thread, and go straight to the latest contribution/s.

Can this not be done here?

freitasm

BDFL - Memuneh
79263 posts

Uber Geek

Administrator

ID Verified

Trusted

Geekzone

Lifetime subscriber

#215859 19-May-2009 11:37

Zippity: Sorry, but that aint good enough.

Sorry.

Zippity: Can this not be done here?

No.

Zippity

683 posts

Ultimate Geek

#215863 19-May-2009 11:46

OK - nothing personal

mjb

996 posts

Ultimate Geek

Trusted

#215864 19-May-2009 11:52

Unless it's easy to extrapolate the page number for a given post id, then it's quite hard to do.

If it is actually easy to find the page number, the 'new posts' flag on a topic (or the topic link in the 'new posts' page) could link to something like:

...forums.asp?ForumId=4&TopicId=34132&PostId=<lastreadpost>

which works out the post id of the next post in that topic, then the page number of that next post, and does a 302 redirect to:

..../forums.asp?ForumId=4&TopicId=34132&page_no=<pageno>#<nextpostid>

Problem solved.... But, only if it's easy to work out which page that post occurs on. Many moons ago I wrote this very extension to a bit of custom forum code on a now-defunct site.

(I also re-wrote the bbcode parser which was as buggy as hell, but that's another story)

edit: damn html parser killed my </>'s :P

contentsofsignaturemaysettleduringshipping

allstarnz

1719 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

#215879 19-May-2009 12:33

yeah, it would be nice to have this feature on here, I use it heavily in the vBulletin and PhpBB forums I visit

nate

6473 posts

Uber Geek

Retired Mod

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#215936 19-May-2009 14:45

Zippity: Where is the option/setting that I need to change/edit that will allow me to view the most recent posted comment in a thread?

Watch that particular topic and you will get an email with a link to the most recent comment. Easy.