New direction for this forum

If it's about Power Wagons, all generations, this is where it'll go. This is the original PWR Forum Power Wagon Technical Discussion Section. And this includes everything that doesn’t fit in any one of the other categories related to the truck goes here!
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by AceMan » Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:11 am

Made some changes to the category structure....

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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by Bill2014 » Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:50 am

I wonder if this change contributed to me getting three screens worth of "Unread posts" - all threads that were already read...
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by OffroadTreks » Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:51 am

RPS1030 wrote:
Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:37 am
Bill2014 wrote:
Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:50 am
I wonder if this change contributed to me getting three screens worth of "Unread posts" - all threads that were already read...
It sure looked like he grabbed an instance from a few days ago to move threads around on. Same here with a bunch of already read "unread" posts.
Are you looking at "New Posts" or "Unread Posts"

New posts is very short for me, unread posts shows pages of stuff I've never read.
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by Bill2014 » Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:57 am

New Posts is always longer than Unread Posts for me - as I typically check for and read all unread posts more than 10 times a day.

last night, I went to bed with 0 unread posts, this morning I had 3 pages
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by OffroadTreks » Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:05 pm

Might keep happening, sorry, gonna have to deal. The site needs to be organized. As discussed, there are nearly 3193 topics and 58264 posts dumped into one category that is a black hole of information. It's going to take some time to sort threads.
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by Bill2014 » Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:51 pm

BoldAdventure wrote:
Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:05 pm
Might keep happening, sorry, gonna have to deal. The site needs to be organized. As discussed, there are nearly 3193 topics and 58264 posts dumped into one category that is a black hole of information. It's going to take some time to sort threads.
No Problem - I was just reporting the issue.

Years ago, I used the main screen and looked into each category one-by-one to find all the new posts. It would take me a few minutes to go through all the categories. Then 3-4 years ago, the mods started stickying everything requested and it took even longer to get to the new posts. So I found the elegant solution of hitting the site with the following link:

search.php?search_id=unreadposts

and I get all my unread posts in 2 seconds. So all the effort of reorganizing the categories doesn't make a lick of difference for me. I only use the categories if I'm going to post a new thread. When I joined in 2014 I read every post in every thread before my Power Wagon arrived - it took a week to go through everything to get caught up... :cheers:
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by OffroadTreks » Wed Aug 01, 2018 2:25 pm

Bill2014 wrote:
Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:51 pm
BoldAdventure wrote:
Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:05 pm
Might keep happening, sorry, gonna have to deal. The site needs to be organized. As discussed, there are nearly 3193 topics and 58264 posts dumped into one category that is a black hole of information. It's going to take some time to sort threads.
No Problem - I was just reporting the issue.

Years ago, I used the main screen and looked into each category one-by-one to find all the new posts. It would take me a few minutes to go through all the categories. Then 3-4 years ago, the mods started stickying everything requested and it took even longer to get to the new posts. So I found the elegant solution of hitting the site with the following link:

search.php?search_id=unreadposts

and I get all my unread posts in 2 seconds. So all the effort of reorganizing the categories doesn't make a lick of difference for me. I only use the categories if I'm going to post a new thread. When I joined in 2014 I read every post in every thread before my Power Wagon arrived - it took a week to go through everything to get caught up... :cheers:

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search.php?search_id=newposts this is better
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by Bill2014 » Wed Aug 01, 2018 2:59 pm

BoldAdventure wrote:
Wed Aug 01, 2018 2:25 pm
Bill2014 wrote:
Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:51 pm
BoldAdventure wrote:
Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:05 pm
Might keep happening, sorry, gonna have to deal. The site needs to be organized. As discussed, there are nearly 3193 topics and 58264 posts dumped into one category that is a black hole of information. It's going to take some time to sort threads.
No Problem - I was just reporting the issue.

Years ago, I used the main screen and looked into each category one-by-one to find all the new posts. It would take me a few minutes to go through all the categories. Then 3-4 years ago, the mods started stickying everything requested and it took even longer to get to the new posts. So I found the elegant solution of hitting the site with the following link:

search.php?search_id=unreadposts

and I get all my unread posts in 2 seconds. So all the effort of reorganizing the categories doesn't make a lick of difference for me. I only use the categories if I'm going to post a new thread. When I joined in 2014 I read every post in every thread before my Power Wagon arrived - it took a week to go through everything to get caught up... :cheers:

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search.php?search_id=newposts this is better
newposts is only better if you want to keep seeing the same "new" posts in your list each time you check in.

Once I've read the post, I don't want to see it in my list next time i check in. I'm only interested in seeing unread posts :wink:

So the site is working great for me!
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by OffroadTreks » Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:02 pm

Why don't we have a mark all threads as read button??
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by Low_Sky » Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:16 pm

BoldAdventure wrote:
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Why don't we have a mark all threads as read button??
We do, from the "Unread posts" search page. It's a little link on the right side of the page, above all the search results.
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by Retired BLM Rig » Sat Aug 04, 2018 9:51 am

Just a simple request for 2015+ members: I know that the model year indicator for the avatar was stuck on 2014 for the last few years and was a point of frustration. However now that it's been updated, it would be great to actually see what year your trucks are.

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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by Bill2014 » Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:03 pm

Ran into a locked thread... Thread has current posts from this month... (including today)
Was this a mistake? or are some current threads purposely getting locked?
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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by AceMan » Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:31 pm

Bill2014 wrote:
Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:03 pm
Ran into a locked thread... Thread has current posts from this month... (including today)
Was this a mistake? or are some current threads purposely getting locked?
What thread is that? Do you have the thread URL? We'll check it out.

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Re: New direction for this forum

Post by Bill2014 » Tue Sep 11, 2018 7:27 am

AceMan wrote:
Mon Sep 10, 2018 9:31 pm
Bill2014 wrote:
Mon Sep 10, 2018 3:03 pm
Ran into a locked thread... Thread has current posts from this month... (including today)
Was this a mistake? or are some current threads purposely getting locked?
What thread is that? Do you have the thread URL? We'll check it out.
I see that it is not locked anymore - and other members have now posted... :rockon:

It was thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5528
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