How do you browse the forum?

[gtmtnbiker]

Ok, but did you notice there's a new sticky in the BST section? If you're just using the unread/new and didn't check at about the right time in the later afternoon on Tuesday, you would probably have missed it.

I use "View Active Topics" and yes, I saw the "SCAMMER ALERT" topic. I have the option of going back and seeing up to a year's worth of active topics.

With view new posts, yes, you might miss it because it seems to reset itself every so often.

[Ivo]

Ok, but did you notice there's a new sticky in the BST section? If you're just using the unread/new and didn't check at about the right time in the later afternoon on Tuesday, you would probably have missed it.

I use "View Active Topics" and yes, I saw the "SCAMMER ALERT" topic. I have the option of going back and seeing up to a year's worth of active topics.

With view new posts, yes, you might miss it because it seems to reset itself every so often.

As far as I'm aware (and I never observed different behaviour) VNP only resets when you login and don't view everything. If you check everything new when you login that time you will never miss anything.

That said, this reveals the main (confirmed) disadvantage of VNP - if you login when you don't want to check many posts, you lose the "newness" of the posts without checking everything (but this is how VNP should work - after that they aren't new anymore). This is the only time I use VAP instead, and then I resume VNP.

The main disadvantage of VAP for me is the list goes on and on with stuff that isn't new to me, so I can't start from older posts and go chronologically (which is what I do with VNP - I start from the last page and go up to the 1st page).

Ivo.

[CRTGAMER]

Ok, but did you notice there's a new sticky in the BST section? If you're just using the unread/new and didn't check at about the right time in the later afternoon on Tuesday, you would probably have missed it.

I use "View Active Topics" and yes, I saw the "SCAMMER ALERT" topic. I have the option of going back and seeing up to a year's worth of active topics.

With view new posts, yes, you might miss it because it seems to reset itself every so often.

As far as I'm aware (and I never observed different behaviour) VNP only resets when you login and don't view everything. If you check everything new when you login that time you will never miss anything.

That said, this reveals the main (confirmed) disadvantage of VNP - if you login when you don't want to check many posts, you lose the "newness" of the posts without checking everything (but this is how VNP should work - after that they aren't new anymore). This is the only time I use VAP instead, and then I resume VNP.

The main disadvantage of VAP for me is the list goes on and on with stuff that isn't new to me, so I can't start from older posts and go chronologically (which is what I do with VNP - I start from the last page and go up to the 1st page).

Ivo.

I like the Active Posts route, it lists with the newest Post or Reply first. I just go down the list until I open a thread with no new replies that I have not read. I would hate having to click every single category of the Forum to catch up on any Replies I have not read. This kills catching the announcement right away, but I came across it on the 2nd page of Active Posts. At least there is no way to miss it just by going down the list, easier then forgetting to click a Sub Topic.

I stay logged in and I just checked and found this.

View New Posts - 2 pages, today's posts only.
View Active Posts - 10 pages, goes back to September 05 2012

The View Active Posts seems to catch any Posts including any Replies dated all the way back to September 05 2012. If one visits at least every few days and just goes down the list then maybe nothing will be missed?

The Sticky Announcement dated on Tuesday is on page four of View Active Posts. It no longer appears on View New Posts.

1. How many days/pages do View Active Posts normally contain?
2. How many days/pages do View New Posts normally contain?

[Ivo]

I stay logged in and I just checked and found this.

View New Posts - 2 pages, today's posts only.
View Active Posts - 10 pages, goes back to September 05 2012

The View Active Posts seems to catch any Posts including any Replies dated all the way back to September 05 2012. If one visits at least every few days and just goes down the list then maybe nothing will be missed?

1. How many days/pages do View Active Posts normally contain?
2. How many days/pages do View New Posts normally contain?

As I said, I like to go chronologically and check older posts (that I haven't seen yet) before checking the newest. When I do have to resort to VAP, I do it like you do and go "back in time" until I spot something that I had already read.

Sometimes I have stretches where I don't check Racketboy forums for more than 10 days and I think VAP would make me miss something. In those occasions, I believe VNP does contain them. Normally when I'm actively visiting, VNP only has some 3 pages of posts maximum. In stretches I haven't checked it easily reaches 10, and I've had occasions where I had more about 20 pages on VNP. I didn't remember the difference in dates but I'm pretty sure it was more than 10 days, so apparently VAP would have dropped some posts I hadn't read in those occasions.

For my personal use, VNP is superior. I do not think people that like VAP are wrong for liking it, I just think it is factually incorrect to state that VAP is strictly superior when they do different things.

Ivo.