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FrenchDrop Inner circle I can name that tune in 1647 Posts |
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On 2012-03-02 10:08, Ed_Millis wrote: Well, we disagree on whether what I'm suggesting would necessarily constitute "big changes to the Café structure." I'm absolutely aware that the Café is run by people doing it for free in their spare time. I'm not making a demand; I'm making a request in a forum designated for requests. As it is right now, the way the board marks posts as read literally doesn't work. It doesn't accomplish the intended task of showing a user which threads he's read and which have new posts he hasn't read. Instead, it leaves threads he's read marked as unread, and it marks other threads as read that contain new posts he hasn't seen. Simply put, it's broken. Having said that, if the Café staffers don't want to fix it or don't have time to fix it, they won't. I don't see the need for people who aren't Café staff to come along and "explain" why it'll never happen. I could understand if you explained why you think a requested change would not improve the board -- but posting just to shoot a suggestion down, to say it can't be done or it'll never happen...I don't see the point of that. And it seems to happen a lot in this forum.
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Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4849 Posts |
Frenchdrop, you don't know how or why things work here so you're in no position to make definitive statements about them.
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As it is right now, the way the board marks posts as read literally doesn't work. It doesn't accomplish the intended task of showing a user which threads he's read and which have new posts he hasn't read. Instead, it leaves threads he's read marked as unread, and it marks other threads as read that contain new posts he hasn't seen. Simply put, it's broken. You are incorrect. The coffee mug process is not broken and it is operating exactly as it was intended. When you log on to the Café, any topic with new posts "since the last time you logged in" will have red cups. They will stay red even if you've read the topic or post until you log out. The Café refreshes every 15 minutes. If yo log back in before that refresh occurs, the cups will still be red. Once the refresh runs, any post that had a red cup and you have read, will have a white cup. That is the purpose of the cups.
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