1. The "lost post" icon is always white. We don't change that color. It is just an icon with no status.
Are you sure about that? I don't think so. If that's true then why is a new erronious (and orange) "last post" icon showing up in the topic column where it doesn't belong? It looks to me like you are trying to change the "last post" icon to orange, but you're doing it in the wrong place.
2. If you look at a thread, and half of the posts are white even though you did not read the thread, that is due to you having done a "marked this forum read" [steve: edited this], which causes posts before mark time to be white.
And I'm saying that they've been marked as white when I'm
not using any "mark as read" features. Heck, they were
all marked as white, no matter what, as my screen shot showed. There were brand spanking new posts being marked as white.
However, funnier still, is that since my last post this is no longer happening. Suddenly this bug looks fixed. Obviously you must have found and fixed something that related to this bug even though you so far haven't accepted that it is a bug and seemed to be oblivious to it. :lol:
3. View posts since last visit uses the "real" last visit, i.e. last time you were on. The red/white logic goes back 7 days (always) so that people don't miss posts (by request). So they are not the same animals.
I've never even used this feature, so this has no meaning to me. In fact, I don't think anyone has mentioned this feature in this thread... :?
After reading the above considerations, can you restate the problems that remain (and perhaps tell me how to remove the confusion regarding 'posts since last visit' without removing the functionality).
I'm not sure how I can make it more plain. :? No one has even mentioned the 'posts since last visit' feature and yet you're going on about it. The screen shots that I sent by email said it all. My last post using ASCII art said it almost as clearly. But here it goes ... again.
1) The posts in a thread were being marked white when they should have been orange.
Without using any 'mark all' features. You could look at a thread and see that it had an orange indicator. If you clicked on that thread,
all posts were white, including the new posts that caused the orange indicator on the thread. The
only time when this was not true was when
every post was new, in which case they were all orange. But so long as the first post was white, they were
all white.
This bug however seems to have been fixed
very recently. Even though you don't seem to understand what's going on, you must have found something, because today this bug is no longer happening.
But if you
didn't change anything there, then I have to wonder if there's still a lingering bug waiting to pop up again at a later date.
2) The shortcut to the last post in a thread is always white graphic. This itself may not be a bug, but it looks like one in light of the following number 3.
3) A new
second last post in a thread shortcut is being placed in the left side of the Topic column. (Instead of being in the Last Post column where it belongs.) This new icon is orange, like it should be. This new icon also has a link, but that link doesn't work. This new icon
only appears if the thread has a new post. If the thread's posts are all read, this shortcut does not appear.
So it looks very much like you are trying to overwrite a default white shortcut to the last post in a thread with an orange one if that last post is new, but you've just royally screwed it up.