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Is there a setting about when the "New Posts" timeout/expire/die?

I know Barry put up the "View Unread Posts" (which is great for them who click!! but I believe that the life expentancy of a new post is about 8 hours??

Can we change this? As it is my premiss that a LOT of good posts are going unread

Will

I think that might depend on your browser or login Will, I check the unread from time to time but don't seem to missing anything even if I'm away for 2-3 days. (My browser is set to forget everything, logins, cookies, etc.)

I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it...

According to phpBB, the new posts should be showing new posts since your last login, although there are quite a few reports of it being a bit flakey. Sadly, as Padraic says, there is no time setting to act as a cut off point. With that in mind, do you think it is not behaving as it should?

The view unread list explicitly keeps track of what posts you've read or not, so if you "purge" it by marking the whole forum as read, you don't get anything till there is actually something new.

Does tapatalk interfere with it?
I have a theory that im missing PM's because im getting a PM, logging into tapatalk in the meantime (where I never really open the PM tab) and then I go back onto the website and I see "0 new messages" on the right hand side.

So this results in me missing some PMs - im just guessing that tapatalk is to blame cos i use it a bit - but have no conclusive evidence.
Maybe something similar is happening you Will (maybe you dont even use tapatalk) - but I have never seen the behaviour you talk about. Im pretty confident that when i "view unread posts" they appear in the order I didnt read them <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) --> - i.e. newest ones first.

Hi James, I can't find similar reports regarding tapatalk, and don't use it myself (crappy company blackberry), but maybe we can test a couple of things. In the next couple of days I'll update the tapatalk scripts, just in case, then see if there is any change.

Do you get emails when you receive a PM?

Anyone else noticing PMs not showing on the right menu, despite having not read them? If so, do you use tapatalk?

But yes, regarding Will's quesiton, it might well affect the "view new items" list, if a login via tapatalk basically resets this as a last visit, so when you come in via a regular browser, and log in again, it only shows new posts since your last login, which may have been via tapatalk.

&amp;quot;Barry M&amp;quot;:12uy9zq1 wrote: Do you get emails when you receive a PM?[/quote:12uy9zq1]
Yeah thats fine - when this situation occurs through email is often how i discover it.
Ah Its not a major issue for me, dont break your back over it - oh another point - my PMs are always full - I dont delete. So new ones push out the old ones - not sure whether that causes what I see - but i'd expect to see the problem all the time if that was the case.
Basically the site says "0 new messages" then when I click into the PMs there is a PM unread. As i say, it doesnt happen all the time - thats why I was suspecting tapatalk.

&amp;quot;Barry M&amp;quot;:12uy9zq1 wrote: regarding Will's quesiton, it might well affect the "view new items" list, if a login via tapatalk basically resets this as a last visit, so when you come in via a regular browser, and log in again, it only shows new posts since your last login, which may have been via tapatalk.[/quote:12uy9zq1]

Thats what I was thinking... cos i know with tapatalk if you view new posts and read some and then go away and come back (on tapatalk again) it doesnt show you the ones you didnt read - even if its only been a short time since you checked - so im suspecting it is, at some level, marking them as read.