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I would like to know how the “New posts since last visit” works. I just clicked that link and logged in on a computer I am trying (and trying and …) to get set up and I got this:

which shows “new” posts from over a week ago even though I have visited the forum yesterday. Usually when visiting with the same browser/computer I get mostly what one would expect. Why do I get this?

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Perhaps you were  inadvertently logged out?

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wavy wrote:

. I just clicked that link and logged in on a computer I am trying

The browser does not start logged in, I login and then the page loads. Before that I get the “Not Found
Sorry, but you are looking for something that is not here.”
page.

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And when I just now visited the page, all I got was a banner with black text saying that “No topics were found here”.

I’m not worried, though, because I’ve never used the page; I just go to the list of Recent Topics on the right side of the page and then peruse the listings found at “Recent Replies” when I visit, either signed in or not signed in.

My last signed-in visit to the site was yesterday afternoon Pacific Time. Since then, Susan has posted the two topics found on the main blog page, and there has been this topic and one about Android tracking that @Alex5237 posted as well, so I would thing that the page should have showed something, based upon the name of the title of the page.

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…one about Android tracking that @Alex5237 posted as well…

Since I can no longer edit my post above, I’ve created this reply. There’s a typo above, it should have read “… @Alex5723 posted as well…” instead of what I wrote by mistake. My apologies to Alex!

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My personal preference is to use New posts: Last day.

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I will check but I believe it’s based on cookies set so it will be per the computer not necessarily the same on each machine.  I’ll check with the vendor/developer to see if my understanding is correct.

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I too suspect as much, any info would be appreciated.
Thanks

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…I believe it’s based on cookies set…

Perfect explanation for why the page looks different for me and @wavy !

I too suspect as much, any info would be appreciated.
Thanks

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I will check but I believe it’s based on cookies set so it will be per the computer not necessarily the same on each machine. I’ll check with the vendor/developer to see if my understanding is correct.

Susan
any word yet?

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I don’t think it’s cookie based as I clear cookies when the browser shuts down but the new posts list is still accurate.

cheers, Paul

p.s. I only use Recent Replies to view new posts

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Paul T wrote:

p.s. I only use Recent Replies to view new posts

Maybe not as the ‘new’ icon will typically still be there for me if I do recent replies after the New since last yields no posts. Must be they are evaluated differently. Susan said she would investigate so maybe an answer is coming 😉

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Still waiting to here back about how this works from SB.

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@wavy, I just noticed something: in your original post, if we look at the attached image, it looks like you were on the last page of the posts shown on the list (136-144). It doesn’t sound so strange that the tenth page of new-post results could be from a week ago. (See the page links 1,2,3,…,8,9,10 just above the column labeled “Last Post”.)

If you go to page 1 of the results, I’m sure that you will get posts that are much more current.

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but still waiting for sb
2 diff boxes nee to co exist made hard w/o info

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One bug at a time.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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https://plugins.dev4press.com/gd-bbpress-toolbox/articles/online-activity-and-read-tracking/

Checking with Milan.

Not sure what you mean by “2 diff boxes nee to co exist made hard w/o info”?

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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have not read your link Susan but I have 2 computers and gpoing from one to the other yields different results for “posts since last visit”
Not a nice thing to trudge thru.

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Probably because the cookies, cache and site data are different on the two computers?  The “last login information” data is most likely that which is stored in the browser from the last login done from that individual computer.

Edit: I just looked at Susan’s link and it says the site software is supposed to keep up with the tracking of the User.

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But the settings (to me) appear to still be based on cookies.

Features that require use of cookies − Dev4Press Support

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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The NEW and UNREAD icons seem to use a different system for tracking than the “New posts since last visit” function. The “New posts since last visit” does seem to be using cookies or something that is browser instance specific.

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Per Milan while it should work across browsers/computers “In theory, yes, and it should be like that for logged in users. However, there are some cases, where cookies take priority for this, and I will be adding many changes for this in the next major update (7.0, currently in development).”

Bottom line hang loose.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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Feet dangling for months now, time to get down and take a walk around 😜😁

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wavy wrote:

time to get down and take a walk around

Yes, sneakernet’s coming back into fashion, load up that USB stick with a portable version tweaked to perfection and test it on both machines?

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