More specifics needed, its running fine here.

EThan

Your missing the new indicators by the post in the thread. THe changes in funcitons.php were to makepostbit.

EThan

How many queries does this add per process.

And when and what scripts are they added to please.

I'm very interested in using this along with Bira's Shrink old posts hack.

Also...what if the users do not mark the forum as read...does the system keep the threads as read forever...or does it kick into the cookies then.

Is there anyway to have it setup so that once the user reads the thread it then marks the thread as read immediately?

1. Depends how deep your hierarchy is.

2. The instructions are in that document, although I need to revise it when I get some time to.

3. This replaces cookies used for forums as read, but not for threads read in the current session, that works the same.

Ethan

This was one HUGE hack to install, but it works beautifully. In fact, I could never use Bira's Contract Old Posts hack to it's full effect (stupid cookie timeout...) until I added this hack.

THANKS! :)

Nice hack. I love it! :)

By the way, the server load increase is there, but marginal. My users love it - we recently merged with an ezboard forum and the migrated members had requested this. They are now ecstatic!

When I installed this, After trying to mark a forum read I would just get a white screen. Not sure what the problem was, but im guessing its one of the places where I had to guess on the code because the directions didnt match.

This is a wonderful hack, I've said it before, and I'll say it again!

I just wanted to mention that in my forum, in order to display the forum home page, more than 260 sql queries are being performed! The situation is not much better with the forumdisplay.php script as well.

The good news are that after hours of intense optimization, the forum home page is now done with only 21 queries, and the forumdisplay.php with 23.

I know ethank is too busy to work on this hack anymore, but maybe these scary numbers will encourage him to come back to us. ;)

Tommy Boy - do you mind sharing your optimizations? :)