[Ronald Epstein]

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FWIW, I am running Mac OS 10.4.6 and the latest Safari and have not gotten any of those error messages.

That's because Parker fixed the problem about 30
minutes prior to your post.

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I have a feeling it's not a software feature anymore, since other forums like AVS and DVDTalk have the same kind of email notification.

That's the biggest problem with this new version of vBulletin
is that you cannot alter it so that you can have a lifetime
subscription to thread replies without visiting the forum after
each reply.

It's a pain-in-the-ass and I hope it's a problem addressed in
a future upgrade of the software.

[Parker Clack]

Cameron:

Does DVD Talk and AVS have the option to be sent an email with each subscribed thread or not?

[MarkHastings]

Instead of recieving emails on new posts, I got used to checking the forums for the "First New Post" link. That was also helpful in going right to the page where I had last left off.

Can I still use this method? How do I visit a thread where I last left off?

Also, I liked how my old "User Control" panel would only show subscribed threads that had new posts. Now my UCP doesn't show these.

How can I go back to the old way of browsing? This new way seems clunkier and more time consuming...and I feel that I am missing on updated threads that I don't realize have new posts.

????


EDIT: I see that this thread shows up in my UCP.

[ChristopherDAC]

Wait a second. There was a "High Definition [hardware] Area" this morning, with HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, and Display divisions, but it's gone now!

[Cameron Yee]

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Originally Posted by Parker Clack

Cameron:

Does DVD Talk and AVS have the option to be sent an email with each subscribed thread or not?

Their subscription systems are the same - it emails the new post since a user's last visit but no further until you visit the site again. It has the same language in the emails of "There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again."

[TonyD]

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Originally Posted by ChristopherDAC

Wait a second. There was a "High Definition [hardware] Area" this morning, with HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, and Display divisions, but it's gone now!

yep posted a new thread there and recieved a reply via email notification.

the email link wont get there.

TonyD, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

[TonyD]

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Originally Posted by Cameron Yee

Their subscription systems are the same - it emails the new post since a user's last visit but no further until you visit the site again. It has the same language in the emails of "There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again."

seriously needs to be addressed by the vb people.

[Malcolm R]

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Originally Posted by MarkHastings

Instead of recieving emails on new posts, I got used to checking the forums for the "First New Post" link. That was also helpful in going right to the page where I had last left off.

Can I still use this method? How do I visit a thread where I last left off?

The "first new post" text link has been replaced by the little blue "down" arrow to the left of the thread title. It works the same as the prior function.

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Also, I liked how my old "User Control" panel would only show subscribed threads that had new posts. Now my UCP doesn't show these.

I don't know all the specifics of subscribed threads, but I don't think the new software eliminated any of the old options, they just may be located in a slightly different place. Just take some time to go through the User CP pages. There seem to be more of them than before, so I'm sure all the old settings are in there somewhere, plus many more.

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How can I go back to the old way of browsing? This new way seems clunkier and more time consuming...and I feel that I am missing on updated threads that I don't realize have new posts.

Not sure what you mean by the "old" way? Is your display set to "linear display" rather than "thread display"? Linear presents the posts in the format we're used to from the old software. When the forum came back up, "thread" view was the default. That was the first thing I had to change.

And threads with new posts appear in boldface type at the top of the list in each forum. Threads that do not have any new posts since your last visit are in regular (non-bold) typeface.

[Malcolm R]

Is it possible to have "Forum Jump" boxes at the top AND bottom of the page, like in the prior format?

Thx!

[MarkHastings]

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The "first new post" text link has been replaced by the little blue "down" arrow to the left of the thread title. It works the same as the prior function

oh, I guess my problem is that all of my subscriptions are gone (I assume they were lost with the database crash). I guess that's why I don't see any "First New Post" icons next to my previous subscribed threads.

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Not sure what you mean by the "old" way?

I thought the new update got rid of the "First New Post" thing. I do all of my reading this way, so it would have sucked if I couldn't use this function now.

I'll be on the lookout for that blue arrow once I start posting more.

[Mike Frezon]

Mark: there is a little blue "down" arrow just to the left of each of the threads which have a "first new post" for you. Just click on that arrow and you'll be taken right to the "first new post".

Took me a while to find that!