Forum, new posts button

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: Forum, new posts button

Just a small point I've noticed. The little orange go to new posts button here on the forum doesn't seem to take you to the new posts - I'm guessing it should point to an anchor.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5625

Which buttons do you mean? The goto new posts link seems to work for me.

Andrew

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject:

The little orange page with a black arrow pointing to it from the left which is displayed to the left of a topic list.

It gives a url parameter of &view=newest but doesn't scroll to the appropriate post for me.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5625

Sounds like some more rewrite rule tweaking is needed, I'll take a look.

Andrew

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5625

Hopefully that's fixed for you now.

Thanks,

Andrew

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:

Er... nope.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5625

Strange, it's working for me. Can you copy the URL that isn't working for you (e.g. the address the icon is supposed to be leading too).

Thanks,

Andrew

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject:

Sure; here's an example:

http://community.nethosted.co.uk/topic2118&view=newest

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5625

I've had another go.

Thanks,

Andrew

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:36 am Post subject:

[Waits for someone to make a new post, in which case he will remember not to view the post before the forum list so that he can test the aforementioned button]

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:40 am Post subject:

That's what I was waiting for too.

The link took me half way down this thread rather than to the bottom as I would have expected.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5625

...but when I click this link:

http://community.nethosted.co.uk/topic2118&view=newest

I get taken to the last post as I would expect.

Andrew

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject:

It worked for me that time but not previously.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5625

This could be due to a different URL format being used depending on how people access the button. I would need to know the one which isn't working in order to fix it!

Andrew

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject:

Worked for me this time - I got taken to MaddogBattie's post which was the first unread one for me.

Nice one Andrew.