This Board Does it TOO!!!

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This Board Does it TOO!!!

October 21, 2004, 12:19:09 PM

Why is it that, if I go to read a thread and I'm reading for a while, when I come back out to the forum all of the new threads are marked as "read?" That annoys me greatly and CougarNuts does the same thing. Does anyone know why?

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Reply #1 – October 21, 2004, 12:54:09 PM

I'm trying to dig into it for ya Jim. At first glance it doesn't seem like there's an admin control on that time limit, unless Carm has found something I don't know about.

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Reply #2 – October 21, 2004, 12:59:36 PM

doesn't happen to me on either...

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Reply #3 – October 21, 2004, 01:24:57 PM

its happened to me more than a few times, only i just thought i was crazy or something, now that somebody eles had it happen i know im not :p

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Reply #4 – October 21, 2004, 01:28:07 PM

I wouldn't go that far

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Reply #5 – October 21, 2004, 01:31:51 PM

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doesn't happen to me on either...

Maybe you are a faster reader than me or something. I've noticed that it doesn't happen all the time, only when I've been in a thread for more than 5 or 10 minutes. I will have to time it and see. I'm almost certain it's some kind of timeout setting. But it happens every time if I have to do something in the middle of reading a thread, I come back to it several minutes later and the entire board looks like it has no new messages.

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Reply #6 – October 21, 2004, 02:00:00 PM

I haven't found the setting yet either, though it may be something in the user CP that individual users can set. When I'm back on the highspeed I'll dig a little deeper.

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Reply #7 – October 21, 2004, 02:08:02 PM

FOUND IT!!!

The defailt setting was 900 seconds (15 minutes). I changed it to 3600 (one hour).

[willy]That should do it![/willy]

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Reply #8 – October 21, 2004, 04:18:19 PM

Nice Willy quote, Sam.
Here's my favorite:
"KEEP OOT" (on the door to Willy's closet)

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Reply #9 – October 21, 2004, 04:40:43 PM

You, sir, are awesome. That has been the one thing that I liked better about ezBoard over vBulletin. Thank you so much for changing that setting!

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Reply #10 – October 21, 2004, 06:10:08 PM

its happened to me many times but i don't think anything of it

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Reply #11 – October 21, 2004, 09:14:31 PM

dam your good :)

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Reply #12 – October 22, 2004, 01:20:56 AM

Thunder Chicken, where'd you find that "time out for cookie" thing?

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Reply #13 – October 22, 2004, 06:32:48 AM

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changed it to 3600 (one hour).

I guess there's no way to set the "who's on" separately from the "mark as read" timer? The attached image seemed to say they both use the same variable. I sometimes have to log off, leaving some messages / forums unread, and it would be nice for them to stay that way until *I* say so.

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Reply #14 – October 22, 2004, 12:07:47 PM

Masterblaster: Nope, they're all the same setting. I know what you mean, but this seems to be the one bad thing about Vbulletin when compared to EZBoard.

jmfulco: the setting was in the administrator control panel, under "General board options". It's a global setting for the entire board (not changeable by individual members).