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carlsson

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Maybe it is barely me and Micom (??) who get stuck by this, but I still find the forum "timeout" a little too short! :mad:

Not that I get logged out - I have clicked the button to remain the cookie set forever - but if I answer a message and take too much time doing it, next time I visit "New Posts", all previously unread messages are marked as read. I have to browse through each subsection for threads I may have interest in reading.

As long as one reads the forum daily and doesn't find too many interesting messages it works ok, but once in a while I have been away a few days AND find a message that I need to spend some 20-30 minutes to write well. Whoops, the unread markers are gone! It is particularly counter-productive as we'd really would a forum full of well-thought but not spammingly long messages instead of all those one liners "Google is your friend".

Can something be done? It is not a setting I can change from my User CP, so I suppose it is something site-wide. Alternatively, I have to plan some of my longer messages off-line and come back later to reply to them, which may lead to not answering them at all. To a smaller degree, other web forums also suffer from this problem, but for some reason other forums tend to maintain cookies for read messages better than vBulletin seems to do?!?
 
Hi
When I know I've got a long one, I use cut and paste from
the notepad. I'v still gotten caught every now and then
but a cut and paste will still usually save the work.
I do agree, it is to short for people like me that are just slow.
Dwight
 
Yeah, I find that too, and, then when I log back in, I have to go through all the new posts manually, because they've been marked as read.

It's minor, but, somewhat annoying.
 
Yeah, I get that, too. You can still click "quick links" and go to new posts there, which is the posts from the previous 24Hrs. To remedy the situation, I have multiple homepages(one of which is the new posts function) and when I view a new thread, instead of just clicking the link from the new posts option, I open it in a new tab, so I can still go through the other new posts.

--Ryan
 
I can't find an option to fix this but I can suggest a workaround. There is an option under "quick links" for "Today's Posts" which should give you more than the "New Posts" link if you've lost the list.

Hopefully I'll come up with something at my end, but until then I hope that helps.
 
Thank you for your support. Today's Posts are nice, but they only cover 24 hours back in time, while New Posts theoretically can stretch several days (weeks?) behind. :)

I might use the Subscribe Thread function to mark messages I mean to write long answers to, as threads subscribed to appear in my User CP. Then I can unsubscribe them once the message is posted.
 
I've got it set to subscribe me to any thread I reply to. I like being able to keep up to date with threads, and I like that it reminds me about the thread in the first place. I tend to forget sometimes!
After a re-read, I see what you are saying. You want to use subscribe thread in a different way. After you subscribe to it, you can set it to e-mail you instead of only appear in the CP. You DO have e-mail, right?

--Ryan
 
Yes, but I prefer not to get my email box flooded with automatic "someone has replied to your message" notifications. Actually I have disabled the auto-notification about PMs as well. They will be read and dealt with when I login.
 
Thats understandable. I reply to about 2 threads a day. I usually have about 5-8 e-mails a day from the forums. I don't get much other than that, though, other than stuff from Google groups and mailing lists. I'd say I only get 25 e-mails per-day, at least that has been the average since I joined the forums. But I like getting e-mails. I feel slightly more important. :)

--Ryan
 
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