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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: *** Big Changes Ahead ***
« on: August 12, 2007, 07:31:09 PM »when i log in and hit "view new replies since last log in" it takes forever to show them!
That's the price of the forum having almost 11,000 topics and well over 100,000 posts. The "Show new replies to your posts" feature checks every single topic on the forum to see if the member using the feature has posted in each topic and then checks to see who may haver posted in the topic since they did. With so many topics/posts on the forum, that can take a loooong time whenever the MySQL database server is responding slowly- and, unfortunately, our host's MySQL server has been temperamental off and on lately - but normally it will work in under 30 seconds. However, whenever there are server issues, there are two other alternatives to that feature:
- a member can simply check the boards to see if there is an icon opposite topics they've posted to indicating someone else has posted since they did. (Though, of course, that can take some time if a members doesn't visit the forum very frequently and they need to check multiple boards.)
- or a much quicker alternative can be to use the "Show unread posts since last visit" feature, because it's likely to have to search through far fewer boards/topics/posts - and it will still bring up any replies to topics a member has posted to. And if it's only the subsequent posts made to the topics a member has already posted to that that member is interested in reading, they can simply avoid accessing the topics they've never posted to.