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#31 2007-11-29 16:06:48
- Mary
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Re: Updated search and pagination
Yiannis, they are (and have always been) ordered by the post time, not how many new replies there are. If that’s how it appeared to you before, it was pure coincidence.
Last edited by Mary (2007-11-29 16:07:13)
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Re: Updated search and pagination
Hi Mary, I agree that they always appeared by post time. What this meant was that latest commented posts were appearing on the top and the rest below. As you can see from the screenshot, the blue dot, signifying new posts, appears on the top and the bottom meaning that the ‘undotted’ posts in between, are ones posted earlier to the bottom one.
Last edited by colak (2007-11-29 16:19:33)
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#33 2007-11-30 15:00:27
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Re: Updated search and pagination
The blue dot signifies post you personally haven’t read.
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Firstly allow me to apologise regarding being insistent on this:)
I agree with you re blue dots.
How the particular option used to be was that it ordered the threads based on the time/date of the latest post within those threads. Now, it seems that it orders them on the creation date of the thread or the date the user first posted within that thread.
This is how I tested…
Clicked on “Show your posts”. Currently it returned 98 pages for me. I went to page 98, last post and posted there.
Reclicked on “Show your posts” and my latest post was still on page 98 with the blue dot next to it.
What this means: If I want to follow some of the threads I posted in, I would need to click each one of the pages in the pagination to figure out which ones include new comments…
I know I am stretching it and that the rest of the options are enough but that was a shortcut link I used regularly:)
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colak wrote:
Now, it seems that it orders them on the creation date of the thread or the date the user first posted within that thread.
I spotted that too: Like you, I always used Profile->Show All Posts as a shortcut filter to see who had replied most recently to the posts I’d written in/started/was subscribed to.
After the recent changes I figured the “new” way of showing the results (i.e. with excerpts like those of a regular search) was how it was supposed to have been all along; the fact it used to give a neat list of bulleted posts in most-recent-replies-at-the-top order was an unexpected bonus.
I’ve now switched over to using ‘show new posts since last visit’ and trawl through that instead. Bit more to take in, but probably how I should have been doing it all along :-)
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Re: Updated search and pagination
Bloke wrote:
I always used Profile->Show All Posts as a shortcut filter to see who had replied most recently to the posts I’d written in/started/was subscribed to.
In fact you are making a good point here as I always used the nickname>Show all posts to locate and confirm posts from spammers.
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#37 2007-11-30 16:44:58
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Re: Updated search and pagination
Ah, I see. Should be fixed now.
Stef, if you use the Regular search form you can get the old behaviour (pop in your username and show as topics). In fact you can bookmark this URL. The idea for the change was so that the link actually made sense – show all your posts (and not show all the topics you’ve posted in).
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Mary wrote:
if you use the Regular search form you can get the old behaviour… the idea for the change was so that the link actually made sense – show all your posts (and not show all the topics you’ve posted in).
Gotcha! Many thanks for the tip Mary.
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