it has always been that way with me and this site, they never update properly. when i make or visit a new thread every new thread created since my last visit shows as having been viewed. so i am unable to see when new posts have been made.
so i am left with clicking on the subsection and seeing if i recognize the thread or if i remember who the last poster was, last i checked.
This is a very old problem with this site, annoys the hell out of me. It's not that they are not updating, they just only update for every singular thread, section, and forum you visit. I have no clue why this was done, but nobody changed it yet so I guess nobody cares.
Seems like there are a lot of things on these boards that simply do work for some people and don't for others. The worst part of all this is that there is seemingly no explanation.
I blame VBulletin. I've never liked it and it's caused the staff (and the users) nothing but agony.
@Jetrall
My problem is a bit different from Num3n's (well, I have both, lol). I think I misread his post a bit. I was talking about non-tracked thread visits. I visit a thread, but unless I return to the section that contained the thread, the forum does not show the section/thread as updated. It's kinda hard to explain.
This is not VBulletin's fault. There are no such problems on other VBulletin forums I attend, and those are numerous, although some of them are run by companies. It's the fault of whoever administers the website. In fact, it's a bit surprising because it seems to be the kind of thing that would not be on default. Someone modified it and made it worse.
But that's just the thing. No modifications have been made to the actual basic functions of the forum. (At least not that I'm aware of). And I'm not having the same problems that you're reporting.
When I say it's VBulletin's fault, what I really mean is that I've never experienced this many problems with any other forum software I've used to date and at least with them when I do have a problem its easy and self-explanatory how to fix it. VBulletin is a complex mess by comparison to, let's say PHPbb.
Some modifications certainly have been made... I worked on VBulletin before and I started off from a default package, and it was configured differently from this one. I also worked on PHPBB and found it a huge mess of things stored in weird ways... I guess it's a matter of preference.
Some problems are backwards compatibility. E.g., some company made some plugin that screws VBulletin up. One of the two has to fix the problem... But what surprises me is that I have all these problems after a brand new Windows XP, or on Ubuntu...
so i am left with clicking on the subsection and seeing if i recognize the thread or if i remember who the last poster was, last i checked.
Yeah. That must be it. :rolleyes:
No. It doesn't.
I blame VBulletin. I've never liked it and it's caused the staff (and the users) nothing but agony.
My problem is a bit different from Num3n's (well, I have both, lol). I think I misread his post a bit. I was talking about non-tracked thread visits. I visit a thread, but unless I return to the section that contained the thread, the forum does not show the section/thread as updated. It's kinda hard to explain.
This is not VBulletin's fault. There are no such problems on other VBulletin forums I attend, and those are numerous, although some of them are run by companies. It's the fault of whoever administers the website. In fact, it's a bit surprising because it seems to be the kind of thing that would not be on default. Someone modified it and made it worse.
When I say it's VBulletin's fault, what I really mean is that I've never experienced this many problems with any other forum software I've used to date and at least with them when I do have a problem its easy and self-explanatory how to fix it. VBulletin is a complex mess by comparison to, let's say PHPbb.
Some problems are backwards compatibility. E.g., some company made some plugin that screws VBulletin up. One of the two has to fix the problem... But what surprises me is that I have all these problems after a brand new Windows XP, or on Ubuntu...