new forum feature->topics with no replies

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Dec 20, 2003 11:28 pm

When you view any topic, on the bottom you will see the 10 last topics that don't have replies. This is to make it easier to notice new topics since I think that's what causes the lack of activity - no one actually checks for new topics. Don't forget there's also the view new posts link on top that is really helpful.

I figured this would not be hard to code and it was not, so I did it. vB has a mod for this but I could not find a IB one.

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 4:37 am

cool feature here red. i always clicked the new posts link on top and the todays most active threads link on the bottom.

but this is real handy as it is loaded on the message thread and we dont have to wait for the page to reload.

only is this for all forum messages? or just the forum your in at the time?

that might be a dumb question as i just seen the answer my self

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 10:52 am

I always look for new posts first. When you talk about writing code, there's nothing I can add, don't have a clue on that!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Dec 21, 2003 12:58 pm

It's for the whole board. I could easly make it for only the forum you're viewing, but I rather just show the overall. I was also going to make it show what forum it's in, but it would require a SQL query for each topic, so you'd have 11 SQL queries instead of 1, just for a little feature like this, no thanks.

The reason is because the topic table only shows the forum ID and not the name, so I'd have to make a query to get the forum name from the forum ID. But anyway, that's beyond what most care about.

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