I'm guessing things started going wrong about the time FF3 installed itself, and I'm guessing it's cookie related, but I don't really know how browsers work.

For me, the little icons for "show last unread" and "show latest post" both take me to the start of the thread.

My browser also doesn't remember where I was on the page, as it does with other sites. That's why I think it's cookies.


On an unrelated note, could we clean up the stickies at the top of 'General'? Several seem a bit dated, and I think a link to the rules should be "above/before" any specific section. Up with "Home :: Articles :: Forum :: Code…" would be nice, so you could get to them any time, but I realise that's already crowded. Really, just something to visually separate them would help me find the first new thread.

Thanks,
SMF

I have the same issue but it comes and goes. Sometimes it'll work on the same browser and sometimes it won't. Sometimes it happens when there are several pages, sometimes it doesn't. I haven't really tried to figure out more precisely when it happens, I just live with it as a minor annoyance. :wink: But I'm not sure if it's cookies given that it does work most of the time. (Incidentally it happened with FF2 and 3.)

it seems what ever generates that link can't tell whether or not the first unread is on the first page or not and simply links you to the topics first page. I'll see if I can fix it when I get home, may be a bug in qsf

Thanks Davion.

If it's any help, the mudbytes cookies I have are PHPSESSID, _utma, _utmb, _utmc, mudbytes_pass, mudbytes_user, and mudbytes_lastallread

The only two that expire in exactly one year are _utma and _utmb (which I think means they were sent today and the others are older)

The _utm* cookies are generated by Google, so they're of no help. If the icons you're talking about are the little yellow folders in the actual forum display, then yes. They've been flaky from day 1 and I've never really been able to see why since they sometimes work. I don't think your browser or the cookies being set have much to do with why it's not always working correctly. Maybe Davion can spot something I've missed :)

The post unread tracking code is quite lame :). Looks like a rewrite! I hate flaky half-working code. Thanks for the heads up, Sandi. I don't really use the forums beyond the front page and the recent post listing, so I woulda never noticed ;).

For the most part, that's how I use the forums as well, I click on the recent posts link on the front page and then click on the recent posts link at the top of each page I finish reading, but I still also have this issue with the link on the recent list taking me to page 3 of 6 even though I posted on page 5 yesterday, or to page 2 of three despite my having read a post on page 3 a few minutes ago, and so on..

Ok, I was supposed to sleep, but hey! Most good code is written in cases of extreme sleep deprivation ;). Anyways, all the code looks fairly sound as far as new post tracking goes. I think I'm now leaning towards a problem in the actual tracking of last-edited-topics (made very evident by the fact that the newest topic on the builders forum is FUBAR'd) QSF people really try to cut down on queries… and it seems they may have slipped up here (I'll bet it's a typo somewhere… wouldn't be the first time I've found one of those in the QSF code.)

The "Jump to newest post in topic" will now work for every topic instead of randomly breaking *mutters something about the QSF team and crazy fingers*

When I clicked on this link: http://mudbytes.net/index.php?a=topic&am...
it still brought me to post #1 of the entire thread, not my first unread. So I think the problem might not be entirely solved. :wink:

Heh. That would be Geoff. I assume at some point you'll be telling me what got fixed so I can fix the public code too? :)

What? And let Geoff know what he broke? :wink:

Thanks, Davion. I just tried the little icon, and it worked. :surprised: