Tom_K Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 There used to be a "go to first unread post" link within a topic. Let's say there's a topic with 5 pages and I read the topic when it was two and a half pages long. When I see the topic I click its title which brings me to the first page. I have no link to go to the first unread post within that topic. It makes sense to show the user there are unread posts especially if he came to the topic from search results pointing to page 1 which he has already read. Why was the link removed? TSP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 (edited) The blue circles means there are unread posts for you in the topic. Click the circle, takes you to the first unread post. If the circle is instead a star, that means that you have posted in the topic and there are unread posts in the topic. Clicking the star takes you to the first unread post. If the star is grey, that means you have posted in the topic but you have read everything in the thread. No circle or star means you haven;t posted in the topic but you have read everything in there. Should the topic title itself always link to the first unread post? Perhaps. If you want that behavior here you go: Now, here's where it get's tricky. If you don't want to use the above plugin and actually want a link within the topic to take you to the newest posts which is what you are asking for, hmmmm. Thing is, once you are in a topic, by defualt you have now "read" it. Not sure what you ask can be done (easily at least) on IPS4x. Best solution is probably the plugin linked above. Edited November 13, 2016 by Flitterkill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy Perry Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Flitterkill said: Best solution is probably the plugin linked above. Best solution is to use a somewhat standard format in that the topic links to the first unread post. Pretty sure most of the scripts perform the same, not requiring you to click on a little round circle to read the newest post. XenForo - click on topic takes you to first unread post Burning Board - click on topic takes you to the first unread post myBB - click on the topic takes you to the first unread post Seeing a trend here yet? IPS is apparently the only one that the users have to learn a whole new process for. Really helps towards that user friendliness, requiring them to learn a whole new process JUST to use your site compared to other (possibly competitor) sites that they use. Guess which they will tend to keep going back to? Odds are it's not going to be the strange duck that requires them to have to relearn/think about what is "normal" for them on other sites. And to top it off, clicking on that little round button is not "easy" on mobile when compared to clicking on that nice long topic text. Edited November 13, 2016 by T. D. Perry Kevin W and marklcfc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Jung Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 There are no circles in the block/widget (for example for a portal page). Threads with unread posts are bold, but you cannot directly go to the first unread post. Tracy Perry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSP Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 You are not properly reading what he has written. He is missing the go to first unread link that was within topics. He is not asking for going to first unread link in lists of topics at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracy Perry Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 (edited) Yes and no.. if the actual topic link took you to the first unread, that icon would be not necessary. Using an icon in the topic is (to me) a kludge to get around the fact that the topic link taking you to the first unread does not exist (instead of clicking on the icon, which most users are NOT used to doing since competing software performs differently). Edited November 28, 2016 by T. D. Perry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_K Posted November 28, 2016 Author Share Posted November 28, 2016 15 hours ago, TSP said: You are not properly reading what he has written. He is missing the go to first unread link that was within topics. He is not asking for going to first unread link in lists of topics at all. Exactly. Guess I won't get any IPS feedback on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_K Posted June 3, 2017 Author Share Posted June 3, 2017 Is there a plugin that could bring this feature back? Let's say a user is searching for something on my community and the search results take him to page 50 of 100 of a topic. There are unread posts in that topic on page 89. How does the user even realize there are unread posts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrej Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 (edited) On 28.11.2016 at 11:04 PM, Tom_K said: Exactly. Guess I won't get any IPS feedback on this. I was missing the exact same thing and left feedback about it during the 4.0 beta period, but I didn't get any response either. Perhaps it was missed out, but it seems it is not missed by many. EDIT: I didn't see the date of the topic. Need more coffee. Edited June 4, 2017 by Andrej Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webrain_merged Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Hello ! Any news on this ? A lot of users are compalining after upgrade from 4.3.5 to 4.4.5 ! They really miss this feature ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13. Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 @webrain_merged PC: Mobile: Download: bearback and Maxxius 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin W Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 On 11/13/2016 at 11:30 AM, Flitterkill said: Best solution is probably the plugin linked above. Holy.... I can't even begin to clarify how much this was frustrating me. As a new IPS customer but a long (long, long, very long) time forum admin & user, never would I have guessed at clicking on the those icons in order to go to the first new unread post. Is this behavior still applicable to the current 4.4.8 release? No ACP option or anything so that the default behavior of clicking on a post title goes to the 1st new post? Anybody know if the plugin linked above is universal, meaning that it'll work in all spots where the thread title may be linked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearback Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 any updated "unread" button within topic plugins for 4.5.4 ? the above is the only one i could find and that's not updated to 4.5 thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 IPS has stated in other threads in the peer 2 peer forums that the functionality never actually worked as intended as all blocks are cached which meant the "unread" indicator was being cached for whoever refreshed the page after the most recent cache dump. So while it seemed to work it really wasn't and you really saw this issue on larger sites or sites with longer block caching. They have no intention to bring it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearback Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 5 hours ago, Morrigan said: IPS has stated in other threads in the peer 2 peer forums that the functionality never actually worked as intended as all blocks are cached which meant the "unread" indicator was being cached for whoever refreshed the page after the most recent cache dump. So while it seemed to work it really wasn't and you really saw this issue on larger sites or sites with longer block caching. They have no intention to bring it back. i didn't ask for IPS to bring it back if you read my comment again, i was inquiring if the plugin that put this option back was going to be updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Man Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Hi, are you guys talking about this in Account Settings? It used to be a site wide activity stream setting in the AdminCP, but now it's available per user and doesn't specifically mention activity streams any longer? If not, apologies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearback Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 13 hours ago, The Old Man said: Hi, are you guys talking about this in Account Settings? It used to be a site wide activity stream setting in the AdminCP, but now it's available per user and doesn't specifically mention activity streams any longer? If not, apologies! its just a simple "go to first unread post" link/button within a topic. when you have say for example 10 pages of posts. click the unread button and it takes you to the first unread post. saves looking through a topic to find the ones you haven't read. my members have used it since v3 days and its worked fine for them and my self, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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