General / Off-Topic [FORUM] Forum (vBulletin) Issues

Selezen

Selezen
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, as it's primarily for the site admin's attention, but there are a few things about the vBulletin technology that are increasingly irritating.

1) on completion of reading the topics on a forum then clicking back to a higher level category forum is listed as having unread messages. 99% of the time I need to use the "Forum Tools"->"Mark Topics Read" option to mark it as read, even though when I go back into that forum there's nothing in there marked in bold to show that it's unread. Occasionally (1% of the time) even using the Forum Tools option doesn't work. It doesn't work most often if I have posted a reply to a topic and that post is the first on a new page.

2) is there any way to put breadcrumbs at the bottom of the page too? Having to scroll back to the top of the page to get back to the parent forum is rather long-winded and is putting a lot of stress on my poor mouse wheel. It's also distracting to the other people sitting around me at work (especially worrying when the Director of Software is sitting two seats away from me), and often wakes Mrs Selezen when I'm foruming when she's asleep, prompting dangerous mumblings of bodily harm should I not cease and desist my wheelies.

Can anyone save me? Both my job and my marriage are at stake here? ;)

Yours,

Worried from Derby
 

DobrijZmej

DobrijZmej
Selezen said:
1) on completion of reading the topics on a forum then clicking back to a higher level category forum is listed as having unread messages.
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If I understand you correctly, I recommend not to use the "Back" browser button but use button on the top of the page (shown in green), which takes you back to a higher level, and update information on what messages you read, and what no.

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And by the way, if you do not know what the forum is a great page User CP, where it will display only the forum thread to which you have subscribed.


Selezen said:
2) is there any way to put breadcrumbs at the bottom of the page too? Having to scroll back to the top of the page to get back to the parent forum is rather long-winded and is putting a lot of stress on my poor mouse wheel.
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As to scroll up, while reading I keep one hand on the tablet (I have it instead of a mouse), and the second - on the keyboard, and for something to scroll up, once is enough for me to press the button "Home". But this, of course, only a temporary solution =)
 

Gimi

Gimi
Configuration of vBulletin

While we are at it.
The way the Frontier forum is configured, all forums are marked as read when you log out and then in at a later time. (If anyone know how to change this in user settings, please help)

This is very frustrating, and if my research is correct, it's a global setting admin can change. I would much rather set forums read manually if I don't want to read them, but leaving those posts I want to read later (mainly for time constraint reasons) as unread.
 

Darren Grey

Darren Grey
Gimi said:
While we are at it.
The way the Frontier forum is configured, all forums are marked as read when you log out and then in at a later time. (If anyone know how to change this in user settings, please help)

This is very frustrating, and if my research is correct, it's a global setting admin can change. I would much rather set forums read manually if I don't want to read them, but leaving those posts I want to read later (mainly for time constraint reasons) as unread.
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Same here. I've missed some important posts because of this before.

But from what I understand some do prefer it this way.
 

DobrijZmej

DobrijZmej
Gimi said:
While we are at it.
The way the Frontier forum is configured, all forums are marked as read when you log out and then in at a later time. (If anyone know how to change this in user settings, please help)

This is very frustrating, and if my research is correct, it's a global setting admin can change. I would much rather set forums read manually if I don't want to read them, but leaving those posts I want to read later (mainly for time constraint reasons) as unread.
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I totally agree. Very annoying when Unread Topic through time (hour or half-hour) is marked as read.
I think the problem is that the forum keeps a list of unread messages on the user's computer.
I met one forum, also in vBulletin, with such and such a problem. They were able to translate the data read messages on the server.
And after that I have unread forum thread show up the same on different computers (now at my house a few forum posts that I have read on the job, are marked as unread).
 

withnail

withnail
I use the "new posts" button at the top a fair bit. I find that this covers the posts that I have missed since I last logged on.
 

DobrijZmej

DobrijZmej
withnail said:
I use the "new posts" button at the top a fair bit. I find that this covers the posts that I have missed since I last logged on.
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It is not always =)
For example, I clicked on the button "new posts", and I flashed the message list, but damn (!), An accountant distracted me for two hours on the computer. When I came back, again pressed the button "new posts", then this list will be different, and those thread in which the two hours there was not anything new will not be shown on the screen.
 

Majere

Majere
Selezen said:
2) is there any way to put breadcrumbs at the bottom of the page too? Having to scroll back to the top of the page to get back to the parent forum is rather long-winded and is putting a lot of stress on my poor mouse wheel. It's also distracting to the other people sitting around me at work (especially worrying when the Director of Software is sitting two seats away from me), and often wakes Mrs Selezen when I'm foruming when she's asleep, prompting dangerous mumblings of bodily harm should I not cease and desist my wheelies.

Can anyone save me? Both my job and my marriage are at stake here? ;)
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S.
1) You use your laptop in the bedroom? That would get me turfed out due to the light! Do you play under the covers?? so to speak.

2) Ctrl-Home will normally jump you to the top on Windows, on an iPad, you can tap the black bar at the top.

My mine gripe is that my login gets forgotten in a couple of minutes and I have to keep logging back in.
 

Alien

Alien
As we are airing what we don't like about the forum, I'd like to say I wish the Private Message total was a lot higher than 25.
 

Bingo Brewster

Bingo Brewster
Alien said:
As we are airing what we don't like about the forum, I'd like to say I wish the Private Message total was a lot higher than 25.
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I have ZERO private messages. :eek: But I'm not sad:rolleyes: EDIT: Perhaps I am, but not in the way you are thinking :eek:

I have similar probs regarding read threads, but I always assumed that was because I dot around between PC, Phone and Tablet.
 
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Selezen

Selezen
Majere said:
S.
1) You use your laptop in the bedroom? That would get me turfed out due to the light! Do you play under the covers?? so to speak.

2) Ctrl-Home will normally jump you to the top on Windows, on an iPad, you can tap the black bar at the top.

My mine gripe is that my login gets forgotten in a couple of minutes and I have to keep logging back in.
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I don't have a bedroom - due to my daughter not having her own place, then popping out a sprog we had to give up the main bedroom and let her and the baby have it. We currently sleep on a sofa bed. However, she recently got a place to live and we have the room back, but we need to decorate and re-furnish it first.

All those solutions are good, but not as "instantly fulfilling" as the one-click solution of having breadcrumbs at the bottom of the page too.

Do you have cookies enabled?

P.S. Yes, PMs above 25 would be nice.
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
Selezen said:
I don't have a bedroom - due to my daughter not having her own place, then popping out a sprog we had to give up the main bedroom and let her and the baby have it. We currently sleep on a sofa bed. However, she recently got a place to live and we have the room back, but we need to decorate and re-furnish it first.

All those solutions are good, but not as "instantly fulfilling" as the one-click solution of having breadcrumbs at the bottom of the page too.

Do you have cookies enabled?

P.S. Yes, PMs above 25 would be nice.
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I can't stand to see suffering of this magnitude so i've decided to step in and end it - i wish i had known about this issue earlier as i could of prevented untold misery.

here is the solution you seek you can either run it from my site of if you prefer download and run it locally as it's only written in html and should be fairly easy to addapt if you wish to add any of the private forums you have access too.
 

Selezen

Selezen
Wow. I'm speechless. Such a simple idea, and it's embarrassing that (as a web developer) I didn't think of it myself.

Thanks, Andy! That might just be a solution for the masses...
:)
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
Selezen said:
Wow. I'm speechless. Such a simple idea, and it's embarrassing that (as a web developer) I didn't think of it myself.

Thanks, Andy! That might just be a solution for the masses...
:)
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just one of the toys i knocked up to add to my website rebuild, as you say such a simple idea but such a useful one, glad to be of help ;)


EDit: wait until you see what i have in mind for version 1.01 ;)
 
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