[OT] Forum wish: revert to prior visit

[SanskritFritz]

In the AutoHotkey forum, a new mod appeared: revert to prior visit.
This is very useful, when I just restart my browser, and the forum shows just 0 new posts. I just click on revert to prior visit, and the timestamp is set back, so i can continue browsing as if i never had restarted my firefox. I dont know if this is a mod, or new version, i just like to have this feature here

[solid]

Yes, definitely a much needed option.
Support++

[Flint]

Yes, that would be very useful! Support too.

[Stitscher]

Would not be amiss!

Support

[petermad]

Super support+++

[ghisler(Author)]

Wow, that's indeed a long-awaited feature! Do I need to change anything in my phpbb installation to make it work?

[Stitscher]

I dont know if this is a mod, or new version, i just like to have this feature here

Maybe a simple AHK-Script.

[SanskritFritz]

Wow, that's indeed a long-awaited feature! Do I need to change anything in my phpbb installation to make it work?

I asked here: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=107126#107126
Lets hope for an answer.

[corny]

The 'official' phpbb mod "Keep unread flags" might also be a solution. Check this link for more information. With this mod, a user really has to read a topic before it is marked as read. So even after closing your browser and starting a new forum session, the topics you didn't read are in the unread list.

[SanskritFritz]

Here is the answer from Chris Mallett:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=107240#107240
He is very helpful, says

If the board owner wants to proceed in spite of the extent of these changes, I'll go through the source and see if I can isolate the changes for just this mod.

[SanskritFritz]

The 'official' phpbb mod "Keep unread flags" might also be a solution. Check this link for more information. With this mod, a user really has to read a topic before it is marked as read. So even after closing your browser and starting a new forum session, the topics you didn't read are in the unread list.

That sounds good also! http://www.essential-freebies.de/ works that way, nice thing!

[corny]

That sounds good also!

It's basically how a forum should work imo. I think reverting the lastvisit date is only a workaround for 'unwanted' behaviour.

[ghisler(Author)]

The 'official' phpbb mod "Keep unread flags" might also be a solution

Hmm, it would mean that you would have to visit all the forums, also the foreign language forums, to mark them read...

[corny]

Hmm, it would mean that you would have to visit all the forums, also the foreign language forums, to mark them read...

AFAIK not, if you use the link for marking all posts as read, i.e. http://ghisler.ch/board/index.php?mark=forums

Maybe putting this link on more places (I don't know if the mod contains already such an option) might be handy.

[SanskritFritz]

Hmm, it would mean that you would have to visit all the forums, also the foreign language forums, to mark them read...

Hmm, right, that is annoying, so I would prefer rather my proposal.