This is not the first time, and perhaps the second or third time this week, that I can’t get the little red unread message indicator to go away in the forum. All day, I have only been able to get it down to three unread messages, and I have gone through each thread from at least the past couple of days trying to find the three unread messages. Previous times I have encountered this, the only way I could find to clear the count was to unsubscribe and resubscribe to the list.
I have had the same problem from time to time. I will add something
to the My Account page to take care of this. Watch this space. I
don’t know why it’s happening, but I agree – it’s annoying.
Walter
On Apr 3, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Joe Muscara wrote:
Walter,
This is not the first time, and perhaps the second or third time
this week, that I can’t get the little red unread message indicator
to go away in the forum. All day, I have only been able to get it
down to three unread messages, and I have gone through each thread
from at least the past couple of days trying to find the three
unread messages. Previous times I have encountered this, the only
way I could find to clear the count was to unsubscribe and
resubscribe to the list.
Since I don’t read all threads, I have these red numbers getting bigger and bigger and I don’t know how to get rid of them.
I don’t find an indication of the total number of unread messages in the forum section to be useful: I would prefer to see an indication of the number of unread messages in each thread.
That’s not really possible, except maybe at the level where you are
looking at a list of threads. And that view is getting pretty
crowded. Once you have gone into a thread, you’ve already passed over
the threshold, and the system decides you’ve read all the messages on
that page.
I’ll think about it some more.
Walter
On Apr 3, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote:
Since I don’t read all threads, I have these red numbers getting
bigger and bigger and I don’t know how to get rid of them.
I don’t find an indication of the total number of unread messages
in the forum section to be useful: I would prefer to see an
indication of the number of unread messages in each thread.
Okay, if you want to reset your counters, go to your My Account page,
look at the bottom of the Forum Memberships table for a new link
labeled Clean up Unread Counts.
Click on it, and wait.
It takes quite a long time, depending on how many forums you belong to.
Walter
On Apr 3, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Joe Muscara wrote:
Walter,
This is not the first time, and perhaps the second or third time
this week, that I can’t get the little red unread message indicator
to go away in the forum. All day, I have only been able to get it
down to three unread messages, and I have gone through each thread
from at least the past couple of days trying to find the three
unread messages. Previous times I have encountered this, the only
way I could find to clear the count was to unsubscribe and
resubscribe to the list.
Yes, I was thinking of the level where I’m looking at a list of threads. If it’s not possible to show the number of unread messages in a thread, just a flag to show if there are any unread messages in a thread would be fine. I think this is standard in most Internet forums.
At present I can see that I apparently have 1835 unread messages in the FreewayTalk list and 345 in the Off Topic list. This is really no use to me at all: I’m not going to open every single thread just to get those numbers to reduce.
On 3 Apr. 2008, 8:08 pm, waltd wrote:
That’s not really possible, except maybe at the level where you are
looking at a list of threads. And that view is getting pretty
crowded. Once you have gone into a thread, you’ve already passed over
the threshold, and the system decides you’ve read all the messages on
that page.
Sometime around 3/4/08 (at 15:39 -0400) Joe Muscara said:
All day, I have only been able to get it down to three unread messages
Heh. The counter on the Freewaytalk forum itself currently reads
2,695 unread messages. But of course I always read it in email, so
that’s fine. I’m curious about how far it could go. (But Walter, if
this could cause problems feel free to reset the count.)
No, it’s just going to be interesting to see when you get it up above
7 figures. I forget how wide I made the long half of the red dot. It
will eventually work its way left off of the page.
Walter
On Apr 3, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Keith Martin wrote:
Sometime around 3/4/08 (at 15:39 -0400) Joe Muscara said:
All day, I have only been able to get it down to three unread
messages
Heh. The counter on the Freewaytalk forum itself currently reads
2,695 unread messages. But of course I always read it in email, so
that’s fine. I’m curious about how far it could go. (But Walter, if
this could cause problems feel free to reset the count.)
Both you and Keith – this is a self-serve operation. Click on My
Account and watch the little wheel spin when you click on ‘Clean up
Unread Counts’. I’ve made it all Ajaxy and everything just for you!
Walter
On Apr 3, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Heather Kavanagh wrote:
On 3 Apr 2008, at 21:23, Keith Martin wrote:
(But Walter, if this could cause problems feel free to reset the
count.)
Okay, if you want to reset your counters, go to your My Account page,
look at the bottom of the Forum Memberships table for a new link
labeled Clean up Unread Counts.
Click on it, and wait.
It takes quite a long time, depending on how many forums you belong to.
It didn’t work. FWTalk is now stuck at 6 for me. I even tried it a second time.
I’ve been fiddling with it. I have managed to reset mine, perhaps a
little too well because my counters never go up!
Could you try yours again just now, I need to look at something.
Walter
On Apr 3, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Joe Muscara wrote:
On 3 Apr. 2008, 8:20 pm, waltd wrote:
Okay, if you want to reset your counters, go to your My Account page,
look at the bottom of the Forum Memberships table for a new link
labeled Clean up Unread Counts.
Click on it, and wait.
It takes quite a long time, depending on how many forums you
belong to.
It didn’t work. FWTalk is now stuck at 6 for me. I even tried it a
second time.
Sometime around 3/4/08 (at 17:04 -0400) Walter Lee Davis said:
watch the little wheel spin when you click on ‘Clean up
Unread Counts’.
If it doesn’t hurt anything I’m going to leave it and see how high
the number gets. Whee, there’s another increment! (Simple things,
simple minds, eh?)
Okay, if you want to reset your counters, go to your My Account page,
look at the bottom of the Forum Memberships table for a new link
labeled Clean up Unread Counts.
Click on it, and wait.
It takes quite a long time, depending on how many forums you belong to.
It didn’t work. FWTalk is now stuck at 6 for me. I even tried it a second time.
I just ran another cleanup function, one that I hadn’t run in a while, which fixes the count indexes. I think what had happened was that the master number for each table had gotten out of synch somehow, and that led to your 6 that you couldn’t get rid of. I also made a couple more changes to the cleanup function, so that it more completely cleans up before rebuilding the “what you’ve read” counts.
