New post button question

Super Trucker · July 15th, 2009, 01:28 PM

Is there a way to change the number of posts it brings up? When I hit the button it only brings up 200 posts, That is about 24 hours worth of posts, so if you stop in every other day you miss quite a bit.

Thanks

falcon1 · July 15th, 2009, 01:49 PM

You're probably already doing this, but when this happens to me (frequently), I just go to the main page and pull each forum up individually. The threads I have not yet read are in bold print.

I'm pretty certain the number 200 has been deliberately set by the administrators.

Bumper · July 15th, 2009, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Super Trucker

Is there a way to change the number of posts it brings up? When I hit the button it only brings up 200 posts, That is about 24 hours worth of posts, so if you stop in every other day you miss quite a bit.

The 200 posts is an arbitrary number in a forum configuration, but one that can, if set too high cause some significant problems with performance. Two hundred is a fairly large number of thread titles to be read every time someone clicks New Posts, which is what happens.

I'm not positive, but I believe that if you go through 50 of those 200 threads and then refresh, you will get 200 again, but not including those 50 you just read.

Super Trucker · July 15th, 2009, 08:39 PM

I'll try that next time I come in.

BTW between the OP time and now there were 114 new posts.

Bumper · July 16th, 2009, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Super Trucker

BTW between the OP time and now there were 114 new posts.

Yup, we be a busy place most of the time....

July 15th, 2009, 01:28 PM	#1
Super Trucker Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: S.E. Michigan Posts: 383	New post button question Is there a way to change the number of posts it brings up? When I hit the button it only brings up 200 posts, That is about 24 hours worth of posts, so if you stop in every other day you miss quite a bit. Thanks

July 15th, 2009, 01:49 PM	#2
falcon1 VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Tennessee Posts: 5,807	You're probably already doing this, but when this happens to me (frequently), I just go to the main page and pull each forum up individually. The threads I have not yet read are in bold print. I'm pretty certain the number 200 has been deliberately set by the administrators. __________________ If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.--Candidus (in the Boston Gazette, 20 January 1772)

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July 15th, 2009, 08:39 PM	#4
Super Trucker Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: S.E. Michigan Posts: 383	I'll try that next time I come in. BTW between the OP time and now there were 114 new posts.