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Irwin Super Nerd Offline Posts: 645 Oxnard, Ca. California USA Gender:	False topic notifications Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 9:40pm In the last week I've received several false topic notifications, just thought I'd mention it.
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Daniel Super Nerd Offline Posts: 546 Europe Denmark Gender:	Re: False topic notifications Reply #1 - Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 10:24pm Me too, but over more than a week. A month I would say.
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Re: False topic notifications
Reply #2 - Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 10:49pm

that's funny. i still get notifications for my modis for sale post. you'll notice sometimes old threads that you have read before will have the "new" icon on them again. are you getting notifications for topics that are now "new"?
i wonder if there's a way to fix this in your user cp. never looked into it before, but i suppose it's worth a peek now that you've brought it up.

EDIT: just looked into the user cp. you can change the notifications in the "posts" tab of your control panel. still don't know if there's a way to stop old messages from becoming "new" again.

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Tom Roberts Autonerdz Administrator Picogroup Offline Autonerdz Founder Posts: 8,595 Olympia Washington USA Gender:	Re: False topic notifications Reply #3 - Mar 24^th, 2011 at 7:47am The old posts going new again on the boards has to do with browser settings and how long followed links are remembered. That's why topic notifications appear at the top for old posts sometimes. You can renew them.
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Daniel Super Nerd Offline Posts: 546 Europe Denmark Gender:	Re: False topic notifications Reply #4 - Mar 27^th, 2011 at 9:23am Got one more today. New drop site, last post was jan 25th. Tom can you explain a little more, what I can do to avoid these false notifications.
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Tom Roberts Autonerdz Administrator Picogroup Offline Autonerdz Founder Posts: 8,595 Olympia Washington USA Gender:	Re: False topic notifications Reply #5 - Mar 27^th, 2011 at 9:54am Daniel, There in the topic notification area, check all and then 'Update Notifications'. This will renew them all. Do this once a month or before your browser history expires and then the followed links won't time out.
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Daniel Super Nerd Offline Posts: 546 Europe Denmark Gender:	Re: False topic notifications Reply #6 - Mar 27^th, 2011 at 10:30am Thanks Tom, but sorry I don’t get it. It’s the other way around. When I open the forum, I get a message that there is a new post, in a topic that I follow. But when I open notifications by clicking yes, it’s just a topic without any news. It’s only a “box” on the site, not an email.
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Tom Roberts Autonerdz Administrator Picogroup Offline Autonerdz Founder Posts: 8,595 Olympia Washington USA Gender:	Re: False topic notifications Reply #7 - Mar 27^th, 2011 at 9:37pm Yes I know, Daniel. This has to do with your browser history settings renewing followed links after a given time. The solution is as I described. When you update notifications you reset the clock. Do this regularly and you will no longer get false notifications.
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Daniel Super Nerd Offline Posts: 546 Europe Denmark Gender:	Re: False topic notifications Reply #8 - Mar 28^th, 2011 at 5:09am Thanks Tom. I’ll just do that, and see how it goes. Daniel.
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Tom Roberts Autonerdz Administrator Picogroup Offline Autonerdz Founder Posts: 8,595 Olympia Washington USA Gender:	Re: False topic notifications Reply #9 - Apr 6^th, 2011 at 9:12am Sorry, Checking removes them. Just hit update button
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Re: False topic notifications
Reply #10 - Apr 7^th, 2011 at 12:31am

Yes, I found out.

I saw a pattern that after about 2 month, after the last post in the thread, the false notification came.
Is it just an information, that it has timed out and you’ll not get any notifications in the future if anyone would pick up the old thread.

Perhaps it’s possible to set it/the forum to never time out. Undecided

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Tom Roberts Autonerdz Administrator Picogroup Offline Autonerdz Founder Posts: 8,595 Olympia Washington USA Gender:	Re: False topic notifications Reply #11 - Apr 7^th, 2011 at 9:15am Quote: Perhaps it’s possible to set it/the forum to never time out. That would be nice but it's not a forum thing. It's a browser thing.
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