You know the number that tells you how many new posts have been added? Sometimes mine works, sometimes it doesn't. Most of the time, it just tells me the number of posts in the whole thread, even if I've responded. Is there way to reset it, or get it to count correctly?
And am I in the right place to ask this question?
posted by MoxieProxy
on May 22, 2013 -
38 comments
Hey there! No big thing, but it's time for a general reminder post about what's okay and what's not with sockpuppets, alternate accounts, Brand New Days, and other multiple-accounts-related stuff on Metafilter.
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posted by cortex
on Nov 12, 2012 -
177 comments
When the "x new comments" link is clicked, does it also magically pull out deleted comments as well?
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posted by nevercalm
on Jun 28, 2011 -
30 comments
Is there any interest in adding a new comments counter to favorites and activity pages?
I'm sure we've all notice how the new comments counters on the front page are perpetually inflated, but any other solutions, like say personalized rss feeds, sounds unnecessarily complex.
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posted by jeffburdges
on Feb 18, 2011 -
18 comments
The "New" Flag doesn't seem to be working right for me.
A typical day in the life of Stagger Lee:
I'll read a thread, leave and come back. Now it says "25 new!" Oh good! 25 posts to read! I'll read them and go back to the main page. But oh no! It still says "25 new!" And from there, the "new" number seems to grow, but rarely shrink.
In short: the "new" flag doesn't seem to notice when I've actually read a post, and just displays all recent activity as new.
Is this a browser problem? A me-fi problem? A mental problem?
Thanks!
posted by Stagger Lee
on Sep 7, 2010 -
28 comments
I'm stuck in Tokyo over the next 3 days, due to volcanic activity over Europe! It's an amazing city that I'm just getting to know. My main problem is that I'm eating alone. I'd like some company over dinner please? Any takers? Full details inside.
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posted by aherdofturtles
on Apr 18, 2010 -
15 comments
The Whelk Invades New Orleans. Bonjour citizens of Louisiana! I'm gonna be in New Orleans from Thursday March 4th to late March 8th tagging along for a conference. Who's up for some bon tempes?
posted by The Whelk
on Feb 24, 2010 -
39 comments
Other sites have a little tick mark or a "new" tag for posts that you haven't seen. Can MetaFilter do this also? Yeah, I know that MeFi has the "xx new posts" thingie, sbut should/could it mark the new ones?
(I have been reading MeFi and AskMe for some time. I have registered andposted a few times in AskMe. Heck, I've even had a MeFi post deleted by Jessamyn! But this is my MetaTalk first time.)
posted by Drasher
on Jun 9, 2009 -
24 comments
Previously covered on the
blue,
The Room will be showing at
Chandler Cinemas, May 15th at 11pm. If you haven't had a chance to see this fantastic trainwreck of a film, now would be a great opportunity. I'd like to host a meetup/pre-film party at my house starting around 6 ir 7 if any AZ Mefites would be interested.
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posted by Bageena
on May 6, 2009 -
8 comments
Whenever I visit the green front page I see that there are x number of new questions and y number of new comments. Is there somewhere I can click to see ONLY the new stuff that has arrived since I last visited?
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posted by taff
on Jul 12, 2008 -
8 comments
It might be nice on the main page to see the number of new messages on a per-thread basis.
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posted by ~
on Mar 21, 2008 -
18 comments
Simple proposition, but perhaps not a simple implementation.
Or perhaps loathsome to the majority.
Some sort of marker (and even the ability to disable it) to show where you left a thread after returning several hours, or even days, later. When it starts rapidly closing in on, say, 200, it's not so easy to find where you last were.
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posted by dawson
on Feb 20, 2008 -
46 comments
Yesterday when I visited MeFi for the first time, I got "no links and no comments posted since your last visit." I figured it was some momentary glitch. But the same thing happened today, so I'm wondering if anybody else has this problem. When I go to MetaTalk and AskMe, it has the correct number of new posts/comments. (Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP.)
posted by languagehat
on Dec 15, 2007 -
27 comments
I love the (x new) comments feature, but I notice that it doesn't work if you're browsing questions by category (say, "human relations"). Would it be possible to add that feature so one could still see how many new comments had been added to questions when vewed by category?
posted by canine epigram
on Aug 1, 2007 -
7 comments
Not exactly a feature request, nor a bug- anyway: is it possible for different views of the "activity by so-and-so {favorited}"
not to open up a new tab for each particular view?
posted by oneirodynia
on Jun 13, 2007 -
9 comments
The (x new) logic in the Blue and Green still seem just about useless within a given session as far as I can tell. I sort of remember talk about this changing several months back, but it doesn't seem to have changed. Any news on this front? (Yes, I know about MetaFilthy, but I'm not a fan.)
posted by graymouser
on Oct 19, 2006 -
2 comments
How about a subtle indicator of first posts and new commenters? I think I mentioned this before in the comments to a thread, but as long as we're all on the Pony Express and there's no contentious threads on the blue, this seems like the time to bring it up properly. [more inside]
posted by spiderwire
on Jul 15, 2006 -
33 comments
My friend and I were discussing MeFi and came to a point of contention when estimating the number of new users MeFi receives per day. My guess was 5 to 10, his was 25 or more. Perhaps this argument can be laid to rest here. How many new users does MeFi average per day?
posted by c:\awesome
on May 23, 2006 -
53 comments
Why does the "new" link disappear once I've refreshed the page on the grey but not o the blue or green?
posted by kechi
on Apr 20, 2006 -
7 comments
New comments on category pages. I'm not marking this a bug, because I don't want to be asinine about it. [más adentro]
posted by Eideteker
on Jan 12, 2006 -
9 comments
Why does flagging a post or comment have to involve the opening of so many new windows?
posted by jack_mo
on Nov 11, 2005 -
11 comments
Now that AskMe thread expiry dates have been extended (finally!), can we get a feature that tells us when new comments have been posted? Right now it just says 'go to the category view for this result' or something.
On a similar note, when I click on 'Work and Money', i only get results for the past month... what up with that?
posted by GleepGlop
on Nov 1, 2005 -
3 comments
OK, probably dumb question, but is there any way to force a refresh of the (# new) posts on the main page? I know it's time delimited somehow, but beyond that I'm clueless. And is there a place around here I can find that kind of information? Thanks in advance, oh, expert-types.
Oh, and on preview, the links for 'About', 'Etc.' and 'Customize' don't work on the MeTa preview page.
posted by umberto
on Sep 4, 2005 -
5 comments
Can we get another way to pay for accounts then
paypal? I'd rather pay $20 for an account through another service then use them. There are several, relatively cheap credit card transaction services out there.
posted by delmoi
on Aug 23, 2005 -
48 comments
New Comments is/are broken.
When someone adds a comment to a post, it used to say how many of the comments were new. It doesn't do that anymore.
posted by fenriq
on Aug 8, 2005 -
28 comments
Not in defense of noobs. Because of noobs (myself included), the sky is falling and
trends clearly show that metafilter is getting rapidly out of control!! Seriously though, this analysis shows that the "average age" of a metafilter poster has dropped by almost 200 days, I am in whichever camp wants to extend the incubation period for noobs like us...
posted by maulik
on Dec 9, 2004 -
68 comments
AskMe tells me, "There have been no new questions and 146 comments posted since your last visit." But there have actually been four new questions since my last visit.
posted by PrinceValium
on Jul 12, 2004 -
3 comments
Whenver I log in, the "new" replies in a post are always incorrect when you are at the main page. You know, (42 posts 2 new). Is this something common? If it is, can it be easily fixed?
posted by Keyser Soze
on Jul 11, 2004 -
1 comment
Something is rotten in the state of ask.metafilter.com. For about a day now, each time I've visited AskMe just after visiting MetaTalk, it has told me that I have no unread threads, but dozens (or hundreds) of unread messages. I imagine that somehow the threads are being marked as read when I visit MetaTalk. Eerie!
posted by UKnowForKids
on Jun 15, 2004 -
5 comments
I'd like to remind everyone that we have some new users, and we really ought to encourage them as much as possible. While I agree entirely with the
Q-man's sentiment, name-calling is counterproductive to the site, especially when it's a user's first FPP.
This isn't so much a call-out on quonsar, but a reminder that discouraging the new users is detrimental to the health of the site.
posted by jpoulos
on Apr 29, 2004 -
93 comments
Anyone else getting their new link/comment counter reset to zero on the first (main page) reload? Since yesterday or so, any time I click through to a thread and then go back to the front, every thread is reporting all comments as read. Seems to be happening on the grey and green too.
posted by billsaysthis
on Jan 21, 2004 -
3 comments
¡Finalmente! I'm finally going to turn on new user signups, and I'm shooting for doing it on Monday. But I could use some help [more inside]
posted by mathowie
on Nov 26, 2003 -
201 comments
please oh please would someone enable new users on mefi again. the shame and humiliation of posting as "demo" is monumentally soul-destroying. Won't anyone think of the children?
posted by demo
on Jun 10, 2003 -
134 comments
So whenever I access MeFi, and it is
supposed to have that nice little
new comments next to the thread to let me know how many new comments have been posted, it does one of the following:
1. Picks a random number.
2. Never refreshes.
3. Relates wild tales of sexual debauchery with my mother.
OK, so the last one only rarely. But seriously, what's up with that?
posted by lazaruslong
on Dec 11, 2002 -
47 comments
I've been on metafilter all day, and every comment in every thread from March 2 9:29pm is marked as new. I logged in this morning at or about
12:52 PM, and it is 3:23 as I write these words.
posted by rebeccablood
on Mar 5, 2002 -
3 comments
