New Message Reset

richlevy · 05-10-2003, 07:55 PM

Sometimes I cannot go through all of the new messages and have to log out. I do not know if new messages are calculated from the timestamp of my last logon or if there is an index set somewhere, but would it be possible to allow the 'new message' time and date to be changed?

I believe we were able to do this on the waffle dial-up Cellar.

The search function doesn't seem to allow for general searches using only a date and time.

SteveDallas · 05-12-2003, 03:11 PM

Yeah, I second that. It would be quite handy.

Undertoad · 05-12-2003, 04:11 PM

vBulletin makes it really hard to do that, by making its search code as convoluted and bizarre as possible. I think part of the problem, part of why it's so hard, is that determining your actual last visit time requires two entirely different subsystems, one based on sessions and one on cookies.

I even tried faking out the search routine by telling it that my own last visit time stamp was yesterday. It returned the thread list as if I'd only been here as of yesterday, but the display showed as if none of the posts were new and didn't have the pointers to new posts. This is probably because the forum display parts picked up my cookies...

So it's not a five-minute hack, and not even an hour hack, and so the idea has to be tabled.

richlevy · 06-01-2003, 02:05 PM

The search function can search by date, but require partial user name or keyword. Would it be possible to allow for a full wilcard as the search field or allow an empty search field to return all results by date?

Undertoad · 06-01-2003, 03:29 PM

You just started this thread to make me feel bad for all the jobs I won't tackle.

05-10-2003, 07:55 PM	#1
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	New Message Reset Sometimes I cannot go through all of the new messages and have to log out. I do not know if new messages are calculated from the timestamp of my last logon or if there is an index set somewhere, but would it be possible to allow the 'new message' time and date to be changed? I believe we were able to do this on the waffle dial-up Cellar. The search function doesn't seem to allow for general searches using only a date and time. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

06-01-2003, 02:05 PM	#4
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Search Function The search function can search by date, but require partial user name or keyword. Would it be possible to allow for a full wilcard as the search field or allow an empty search field to return all results by date? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

05-12-2003, 03:11 PM	#2
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Yeah, I second that. It would be quite handy.

05-12-2003, 04:11 PM	#3
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	vBulletin makes it really hard to do that, by making its search code as convoluted and bizarre as possible. I think part of the problem, part of why it's so hard, is that determining your actual last visit time requires two entirely different subsystems, one based on sessions and one on cookies. I even tried faking out the search routine by telling it that my own last visit time stamp was yesterday. It returned the thread list as if I'd only been here as of yesterday, but the display showed as if none of the posts were new and didn't have the pointers to new posts. This is probably because the forum display parts picked up my cookies... So it's not a five-minute hack, and not even an hour hack, and so the idea has to be tabled.

06-01-2003, 03:29 PM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	You just started this thread to make me feel bad for all the jobs I won't tackle.

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