What happened? Every folder on the site is red!

[Guest nickcornaglia]

I know they're not all new....did something reset itself?

-Nick

[Guest ajb3000]

Pauls been playing around with the way red folders work, so it's most likely something to do with that

[Guest ashley.flynn]

i think hes set it up so that now only the specific topics you view are not red. this allows you to view some topics, leave and then come back and easily see the ones you havent. basically, when you have read all the topics you want to, click the 'mark all forums read' link at the bottom of the main forum index page. i feel paul needs to make this more visible to employ this kind of history system. Im amazed this hasnt clogged up the system but hats off :), it hasnt!

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Why change the way it was. Wasn't it just the opposite of what you just wrote?

It used to be that the red folders were the one's I didn't read. I like it that way better as red is a flag for for me to go see something new.

Unless RED now equals READ.

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Why change the way it was. Wasn't it just the opposite of what you just wrote?

It used to be that the red folders were the one's I didn't read. I like it that way better as red is a flag for for me to go see something new.

Unless RED now equals READ.

The legend at the bottom still reads Red = New posts

[Guest ashley.flynn]

no red = red, its to indicate to you the posts that you havent read yet. I agree that this is mainly of benefit to the heavy users, often reading every post, but the old way was to view say the 'main' area, read a couple of posts and then all the unread posts would turn blue, indicating that you had read them. the new system remembers the ones you havent read and keeps them red. ( i know i must be able to word this better! :? )

If you read eveything you want to and click that 'mark all forums read' every time you leave, everything will be pretty much the same

(there is a key at the bottom of most pages, excluding induvidual posts, telling you what the colour of the folders mean)

Hope this helps

Ash

[Guest ashley.flynn]

http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=68744 this should help

[Guest nickcornaglia]

okay...I get it now. I guess this way is better. But I was already used to the old way.

I like only reading what I wanted...then the next visit I had a new set of red's. But I'll learn to adjust to what is probably the better method. I guess.

[Guest ashley.flynn]

well its arguable i suppose but nice design on your site btw!

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Thanks...I'm working on it! Finally reached a concept that I may stick with...need's alot of cleaning up and eventually some actual content.

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

For the record...

The new Red folder system (from an end user point of view) works in exactly the same way as before the update. However you can now log in/out, go idle for a week, open MoDaCo in 2 browsers, and all your unread posts will stay unread (where previously they didnt).

All in all much more versatile...

[Guest fraser]

Much better, I asked about this ages ago. Thanks guys, I stopped checking Modaco as much as I used to when the volume of posts ramped right up. It was impossible to check out every red folder in each visit. Now it's not a problem.