Auto Refresh on the "New Posts"....

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How about a 60 sec. auto refresh of the New Post search located here:

http://forums.gtplanet.net/search.php?s=&action=getnew

It would be nice in my situation on how I use the forum, but don't know how many other's use this feature often. It would probably help prolong the life of my left button on my mouse...

Thanks for reading....

Oh and.... This meta tag could be added pretty painlessly:

PHP: 
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="60; URL=search.php?s=&action=getnew">
 
I like this idea!

I was actually talking about this last night. Is there a way that you could "automatically" refresh the page while staying in the thread that your in? Or have the page refresh when a new post is made?
 
No there really isn't unless you wanted to open up your computer for complete access to your system's resources, which I don't think you want.

Bulletin boards seem dynamic, but are infact static, in that you don't get live data, only a series of updates from queries done on the database. But that would be killer if the refreash would be triggered by an event such as a person submitting a post.

:)
 
you spelled refresh wrong :)
hahhaaha that is a good idea, instead of being gone for 5 hours and still think your reply was the latest one.
 
:blush:, thanks for pointing that out....

*now looking for 1mic's misspelled words...* :D
 
Originally posted by Pako
How about a 60 sec. auto refresh of the New Post search located here:

http://forums.gtplanet.net/search.php?s=&action=getnew

It would be nice in my situation on how I use the forum, but don't know how many other's use this feature often. It would probably help prolong the life of my left button on my mouse...

Thanks for reading....

Oh and.... This meta tag could be added pretty painlessly:

PHP: 
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="60; URL=search.php?s=&action=getnew">
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Done! :)

I was actually talking about this last night. Is there a way that you could "automatically" refresh the page while staying in the thread that your in? Or have the page refresh when a new post is made?
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No, that would be extremely annoying in most instances.
 
Originally posted by Jordan
Done! :)
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:thumbsup: You da man!

Thanks so much, unlike Tom and Zero, I am much too lazy to sit there and hit the F5 key all the time...:)

:cheers:
 
Originally posted by Zero


Same here :)
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I think you're the one that told me last year in the HMRCWG thread. Might have been Josh.... to bad I can't search for F5, this is going to bother me for days ;)
 
Bleh I wanted credit!!!!!!:shades: Nice job finding that post, u have no life bluedawnrider
 
LOL, Thanks Pako, I never would have found it. Josh gets the award, sorry Zero. :(

Btw Zero, I had a feeling that Pic was an altered photo of "Josh" ;)
 
Originally posted by Tom McDonnell
.... to bad I can't search for F5, this is going to bother me for days ;)
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Actually I think you can search for *F5*, but don't hold me to it. The * counts as a character, but it's also a wildcard so it can be anything including a space.

~LoudMusic
 
Or you could search for "Refresh", and hit the last page of the results....... :)
 
Originally posted by Tom McDonnell
LOL, Thanks Pako, I never would have found it. Josh gets the award, sorry Zero. :(

Btw Zero, I had a feeling that Pic was an altered photo of "Josh" ;)
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Hey, no problem Tom.....and too bad about that Zero, eh? He was so close to being in your debt...:D
 
Originally posted by Tom McDonnell
Btw Zero, I had a feeling that Pic was an altered photo of "Josh" ;)
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Altered? BTW, the camera adds 10 pounds right? So how many were on "Josh"? :lol:
 
Originally posted by Tom McDonnell
Josh gets the award, sorry Zero. :(

Btw Zero, I had a feeling that Pic was an altered photo of "Josh" ;)
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I accept the award, but you're not getting a speech from me.:P


And uh, what's this pic I'm reading about? I've never posted a pic of myself here. So it's probably a pic Jordan posted trying to be Mr. Funny Man.:lol::mad::D
 
Originally posted by Pako
But that would be killer if the refreash would be triggered by an event such as a person submitting a post.

:)
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No, that's a really bad idea. Imagine you were trying to read a thread that was busy! The damn thing would never be done refreshing, and you'd never get to read it.

Also, how would you control the pages? If someone's reading page 1 of a 2 page thread, should they be forced to reload? I wouldn't think so.

And (finally for this topic), it would be a huge waste of bandwidth for Jordan. Imagine if someone sets their preferences to 100 posts per page, then views HMRCWG, then wanders off for dinner, or something.

Sorry to trash your idea mate! :blush:
 
Originally posted by Josh



And uh, what's this pic I'm reading about? I've never posted a pic of myself here. So it's probably a pic Jordan posted trying to be Mr. Funny Man.:lol::mad::D
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That's the one ;) I think Zero is taking a shot at you, better ban him ;)
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie


No, that's a really bad idea. Imagine you were trying to read a thread that was busy! The damn thing would never be done refreshing, and you'd never get to read it.

Also, how would you control the pages? If someone's reading page 1 of a 2 page thread, should they be forced to reload? I wouldn't think so.

And (finally for this topic), it would be a huge waste of bandwidth for Jordan. Imagine if someone sets their preferences to 100 posts per page, then views HMRCWG, then wanders off for dinner, or something.

Sorry to trash your idea mate! :blush:
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:lol: That's alright, it really wasn't my idea anyhow. :D But the killer part would be not the end result, which I can see would be just too chaotic, but the process and the fact that it could be done would be killer. I was so excited about thinking about the process that I lost sight of the end result. :)
 
Originally posted by Josh




I accept the award, but you're not getting a speech from me.:P


And uh, what's this pic I'm reading about? I've never posted a pic of myself here. So it's probably a pic Jordan posted trying to be Mr. Funny Man.:lol::mad::D
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:lol:, no man...come on you remember. You posted the pic, and Zero's current avatar is a variation of that pic....:)
 
Originally posted by Tom McDonnell


That's the one ;) I think Zero is taking a shot at you, better ban him ;)
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I smell a lynchin' 'bout to happin'.....:eek:
 
I don't know how it does it (i don't do that kind of IT) but the firewall, proxy and PC setup combination we have at work does this for us. Certainly the time i really noticed it was with Lebsta's big piccy (let's not go there). I see the pages / threads update in front of me. I was reminded of it because of this morning when i was chatting with Dudebusta and Boombexus their posts kept popping up at the end of the thread as i read the posts.

Like i said i don't know how it does it, maybe we're hitting some sort of cache limit so it (the set up) tries to re cache constantly.

But it's not invasive, it can be confusing for a second but that's all. Maybe if it was thread that was getting hit hard it would be a problem.
 

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