[23-AUG-2012] New e-mail notification system implemented on BLF [Updated: 01-OCT-2012]

[FlashPilot]

The page number tag used to work and then it got broken. SB tried to fix it but was unsuccessful.

[sb56637]

@arekm

It should be easy/possible to fix it to match “reasonable experience”, right?

Unfortunately, no. My apologies.

[arekm]

Is the source code for forum engine available anywhere? I could take a look if it is available.

Edit: If not fixing it correctly then maybe changing it to always point to last page?

[sb56637]

@arekm

Is the source code for forum engine available anywhere? I could take a look if it is available.

Edit: If not fixing it correctly then maybe changing it to always point to last page?

I really appreciate you offering to take a look. But basically a lot of people have tried, and failed to come up with a good solution.
https://drupal.org/node/26966
The good news is that it is supposedly fixed in Drupal 7. I just need to find a LOT of time to upgrade BLF to Drupal 7 and test and fix the inevitable issues that arise with the new platform.

Thanks again for the offer to help!

[FlashPilot]

Its to bad it never got fixed. Cumulatively, it would probably save a good amount of bandwidth in sending users straight to the first thread update.

[sb56637]

@FlashPilot

Its to bad it never got fixed. Cumulatively, it would probably save a good amount of bandwidth in sending users straight to the first thread update.

True. But at this point an upgrade to the next major version of Drupal is inevitable, so fixing it in our current version would probably be wasted effort, if indeed it was possible to fix it.

[FlashPilot]

At least you tried. Good luck with your upgrade… and just about when you got everything working properly in the current version.

[arekm]

@sb56637

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The good news is that it is supposedly fixed in Drupal 7. I just need to find a LOT of time to upgrade BLF to Drupal 7 and test and fix the inevitable issues that arise with the new platform.

Then we need just temporary hack until upgrade to drupal 7 happens.

Please hardcode (if possible in the code) high page number (for example 99999999999) like:

[23-AUG-2012] New e-mail notification system implemented on BLF [Updated: 01-OCT-2012]

Or, in other words, "I'm a terrible programmer!". [image] You've probably noticed my plethora of "test" posts recently. After hundreds and hundreds of iterations and many blunders and false starts and dead-end roads, I think we now have in place a custom-made e-mail notification system that we can all be proud of. The previous system was pretty bad. It sent one notification for every new comment. Many of our users would wake up to find 80 messages in their inbox-- the majority from 1 singl…

Drupal will always put you in last page available (and I don’t think there is more pages than such number) thus making
“better” behaviour in most cases.

[garrybunk]

@arekm

@sb56637

[ The good news is that it is supposedly fixed in Drupal 7. I just need to find a +LOT+ of time to upgrade BLF to Drupal 7 and test and fix the inevitable issues that arise with the new platform.

Then we need just temporary hack until upgrade to drupal 7 happens. Please hardcode (if possible in the code) high page number (for example 99999999999) like: [23-AUG-2012] New e-mail notification system implemented on BLF [Updated: 01-OCT-2012] Drupal will always put you in last page available (and I don’t think there is more pages than such number) thus making “better” behaviour in most cases.

Click your link and take a look at what it does to your post number.

-Garry

[arekm]

Yeah, it is just a hack not a elegant solution. Personally I would prefer to end up on last page with bad post number than on first (bad) thread page with correct number.

[Ejected_Filament]

I would assume one other problem with landing on the last page as a default is that the new post may be an updated post, not so much new. It could therefore be on the first, or a middle, or the end page. When you edit a post it appears as a new post too. Having the right post number, you can find the relevant post easy enough, getting a borked post number would be less useful.