Wondering if this happens to others. When I visit the Board I click on the line up top that reads "Show unread posts since last visit" to make it easy for me to catch up. I have noticed that when I click a post to read & then back up to return to the list of unread posts the post that was in line after the post I just visited is gone. What's up with that?
Also another thing is that the next post in line use to be highlighted when I returned to the list of unreads but not no more.
Hi John,
I don't personally use that feature but, I will check into it and see if it happens to me.
Thanks
Nick-
I have been using that for years now. :) When i click the back button, the post i was reading disappears and i go back to the list of unread posts. Have never seen one highlighted though.
Clicking on an item closes the current page and opens the new one. When you go back to the previous page, it thinks you have read it before because you were just there. (At least that's how it works for me, and, as I underestand it)
The solution is to Right Click the item you want to read, then left click "open in new window." Then when you close that window the old one is still there just as you saw it before. If you are using a browser other than ie it could be otherwise.
tg
Works the same way in Firefox too!
Dave
Hi John and others,
It seems the fourm is set up that way.. After reading [unread posts since last visit] it deletes it from your page,
I guess so you don't read it again. ??
Hope you are not too bothered by this! :o Lol
Nick-
It works that way for me too. What also dissapears is the next post in line that I may have wanted to read though.
Example- I look at the list of posts & choose one on generators. Before I clicked it to go there I noticed the very next post is about the SEBN rally at the cove. This I want to see also. But after I read the generator post & back up to the list the SEBN post is now also gone.
Ok- Little more info. I just clicked on "Onan no start". I used my BROWSER back button to go back to the list. The next post which was "I have an air leak" was gone.
Further testing revealed that if I clicked the "Show unread posts since last visit" to go back to list I don't lose any posts. Interesting...
I personally haven't used that feature in a long while, just my habits. The issue I have experience recently is that after writing a lengthy post is hitting "Post", just to have what I wrote in the block just DISAPPEAR. I think it might happen if I move too quickly. ?? I'm gonna try just hitting "alt+s to submit", see fine print below.
Dennis
If you open it, consider it read. I like that feature and it works well.
Dennis,
If it looks like I'm going to be writing a lengthy post I write it up in Microsoft Word, save it, then highlight & copy the text into my post. I lost a couple of posts like you. Too hard to remember & rewrite everything.
Quote from: john9861 on April 09, 2011, 05:47:39 PM
Dennis,
If it looks like I'm going to be writing a lengthy post I write it up in Microsoft Word, save it, then highlight & copy the text into my post. I lost a couple of posts like you. Too hard to remember & rewrite everything.
I used to do that, then got lazy and just typed it out in the reply box. One rainy evening I spent the better part of a night posting about where I was able to park my bus in San Francisco, but my photos where to big and I lost everything >:(. I still haven't got over that and when I do ever get around to it again it will be a cliff note version of what I wrote before. Just like you for lengthy post, they get created in a word processor and then copy/paste to here.