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[Paralytic]

Is this the double-arrow icon on forum pages, e.g. https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/general/ - if so, can you check where the link is pointing to? Try right-clicking (or equivalent) and "Inspect Element", which should show the page structure with that item being an element - can you check what the value "blah" is?

Yes, it's the round circle with the double down arrow icon on the topic lists table.

New posts are indicated in the "What frightening experiences have you had" thread (its bold) and the icon link points to :

https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/general/142592-what-frightening-experiences-have-you-had.html?goto=newpost

And here's from inspector from another thread with new posts:

<div class="topic-wrapper js-topic-wrapper h-wordwrap">

<a href="https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/general/142600-stupidest-breach-of-covid-lockdown-rules.html?goto=newpost" class="go-to-first-unread b-icon b-icon__double-arrow-down--blue js-go-to-first-unread" title="Go to first new post">&nbsp;</a>

<a href="https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/general/142600-stupidest-breach-of-covid-lockdown-rules.html" class="topic-title js-topic-title" data-hasqtip="0" aria-describedby="qtip-0">Stupidest breach of Covid lockdown rules?</a>

<span class="h-hide-on-large h-hide-on-wide-column">

by <a href="https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/member/34340-psychocandy">psychocandy</a>

</span>

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[ladymuck]

Is there any functional difference between 'Mark Channels Read' (as seen here under Social/Events https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/) and 'Forum Actions > Mark Forums Read' other than the former works and the latter suffers from 'occasional deferred success'?

[eek]

Are you talking about the Post Likes / Thanks tab in Profile? Mine's empty too.

Yep - the Post likes / thanks tab.

You should also have rep so you can check if a message was sent or not.

[NickFitz]

Yes, it's the round circle with the double down arrow icon on the topic lists table.

New posts are indicated in the "What frightening experiences have you had" thread (its bold) and the icon link points to :

https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/general/142592-what-frightening-experiences-have-you-had.html?goto=newpost

Ah good, they've got yet another mechanism for going to new posts

I've literally never used that, and a comment in the relevant template says something about it being created with JavaScript, which is the kind of idiotic thing they'd do. I'll see about fixing it, but in the meantime, I was thinking of the rectangle with two arrows over towards the right after the time/date in the "Last Post" column on that page - that should work

[NickFitz]

Ah good, they've got yet another mechanism for going to new posts

I've literally never used that, and a comment in the relevant template says something about it being created with JavaScript, which is the kind of idiotic thing they'd do. I'll see about fixing it, but in the meantime, I was thinking of the rectangle with two arrows over towards the right after the time/date in the "Last Post" column on that page - that should work

From what I can work out so far, it seems that the rectangle-with-arrows takes you to the last post in the thread, while the circle-with-arrows takes you to the last unread post, which is of course specific to you.

The problem is that the latter functionality is implemented by loading the page, then doing a JavaScript call to find out what the last-read thing is for you in particular, then using JavaScript to load the posts for the correct page and replace the page it just loaded and "fix" the page number… typical excessive JS stupidity (and I say that as a JS developer since 1996).

The problem is that I've already ripped out their nonsense (originally, the entire site worked like this… it was a nightmare) so that isn't going to happen.

So I need to add something on the backend which recognises that link and will redirect to the correct page. I'm pretty sure I know how to make that work, but it's not as quick a fix as some of them have been. Give me a little time, and until then you'll have to make do with only being able to get to the last post, I'm afraid

[NickFitz]

Yep - the Post likes / thanks tab.

You should also have rep so you can check if a message was sent or not.

I'm not sure yet what's going on with that, but the thanks/likes plugin has been neglected by its owners and isn't completely up to date. I'll see about sorting something out

I had heard that the developers simply focused their efforts somewhere else, but I've just seen a post in the vBulletin forums claiming that they were both convicted for possession of large quantities of child porn, and that's why their business has been rather neglected of late

[ladymuck]

Not receiving reputation notifications either.

They don't come through very often so that's a hard one to reproduce. And it's entirely possible I did receive something but it was buried in all the 'likes' we were getting

Thanks to someone (and eek) was very kind enough to support further testing, I can confirm that notifications are not being issued (or received) for rep being awarded.

[eek]

Thanks to someone (and eek) was very kind enough to support further testing, I can confirm that notifications are not being issued (or received) for rep being awarded.

I can't comment as the rep wasn't reciprocated - I was half tempted to give you negative rep and I should have done.

[ladymuck]

I can't comment as the rep wasn't reciprocated - I was half tempted to give you negative rep and I should have done.

I didn't ask you to send any over, no need to get all uppity

[NickFitz]

Can't see own profile, not authorized apparently.

qh

Can you check now? it was, I hope, the same problem that eek was seeing, but if it's still broken for you, I'll investigate further