How Is "Newest" on the Front Page Set Up?

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  • edytwinky
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2007
    • 349
    • 3.8.x

    How Is "Newest" on the Front Page Set Up?

    When you log on to your forums via the Mobile Suite, how does the suite determine what appears on the "Newest" section on the home page? It doesn't seem to look like "What's New" or the newest posts of the day.
  • Steve Machol
    Former Customer Support Manager
    • Jul 2000
    • 154488

    #2
    Actually it does looks for the newest posts.
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    • moonfox
      Member
      • Mar 2011
      • 59
      • 3.8.x

      #3
      How does a user refresh new posts?

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      • Steve Machol
        Former Customer Support Manager
        • Jul 2000
        • 154488

        #4
        That depends on the read marking type you have set here:

        Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> General Settings -> Thread/Forum Read Marking Type
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        • punchbowl
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2006
          • 3903
          • 4.0.x

          #5
          I'm not sure it's working as designed tbh. Said it before but here's a pic.

          Look at the newest thread on the unfiltered list and compare it to the first on the filtered side. The front page unfiltered is showing much older stuff.

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          I think this is where the confusion is from. It certainly confuses me and I mentioned it in the feedback thread in lic.cust.

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          • Steve Machol
            Former Customer Support Manager
            • Jul 2000
            • 154488

            #6
            What do you have set here?

            Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> General Settings -> Thread/Forum Read Marking Type
            Steve Machol, former vBulletin Customer Support Manager (and NOT retired!)
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            Steve Machol Photography


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            • punchbowl
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2006
              • 3903
              • 4.0.x

              #7
              that's on this forum

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              • moonfox
                Member
                • Mar 2011
                • 59
                • 3.8.x

                #8
                Option 3.

                When I want to see new posts on this forum I click "new posts". How does one refresh new posts on the app?

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                • punchbowl
                  Senior Member
                  • Nov 2006
                  • 3903
                  • 4.0.x

                  #9
                  Originally posted by moonfox
                  Option 3.

                  When I want to see new posts on this forum I click "new posts". How does one refresh new posts on the app?
                  go to another page then go back and they should be refreshed. i think if you filter for blogs(or anything else) then go back to filtering for forums it'll update too. neither is ideal obviously but it's early days

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                  • Steve Machol
                    Former Customer Support Manager
                    • Jul 2000
                    • 154488

                    #10
                    This forum uses the database marking system. Threads will remain unread until you read the new posts in them.
                    Steve Machol, former vBulletin Customer Support Manager (and NOT retired!)
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                    • Paul M
                      Former Lead Developer
                      vB.Com & vB.Org
                      • Sep 2004
                      • 9886

                      #11
                      Originally posted by punchbowl
                      I'm not sure it's working as designed tbh. Said it before but here's a pic.

                      Look at the newest thread on the unfiltered list and compare it to the first on the filtered side. The front page unfiltered is showing much older stuff.

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                      I think this is where the confusion is from. It certainly confuses me and I mentioned it in the feedback thread in lic.cust.
                      Thats got to be a bug. The clearest example of how its wrong are the final two items, which are the same in both lists, but [incorrectly] reversed in the unfiltered list.
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                      • punchbowl
                        Senior Member
                        • Nov 2006
                        • 3903
                        • 4.0.x

                        #12
                        Steve, that's not the point. if you have a list of all new content then you filter out all content except threads the thread should still be in the same order. e.g.

                        t1
                        t2
                        b1
                        t3
                        b2
                        a1
                        t4

                        filtered should be

                        t1
                        t2
                        t3
                        t4

                        i didn't read any threads between the two pics and the threads aren't the same - look at the pics closely and the times

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                        • Steve Machol
                          Former Customer Support Manager
                          • Jul 2000
                          • 154488

                          #13
                          Feel free to report this in Jira.
                          Steve Machol, former vBulletin Customer Support Manager (and NOT retired!)
                          Change CKEditor Colors to Match Style (for 4.1.4 and above)

                          Steve Machol Photography


                          Mankind is the only creature smart enough to know its own history, and dumb enough to ignore it.


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                          • punchbowl
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2006
                            • 3903
                            • 4.0.x

                            #14
                            i'll check this thread in the morning when i'm not on the mobile and might have a go then - tbh i'm not sure what the functionality of the front page of the app is supposed to do so it's hard to know if it's working as designed or not.

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                            • edytwinky
                              Senior Member
                              • Aug 2007
                              • 349
                              • 3.8.x

                              #15
                              See that was my main thing. From a computer, once a thread is read it doesnt appear on "the newest" posts. On the mobile app, the thread still appears on the homepage.

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