Hello,

I am currently in the process of migrating an existing website to a new one, which is based on XOOPS and is using NewBB.

The "old" website uses Ikonboard, which has a nice feature that allows users to view a complete list of new posts made to various forums of the messageboard since their last visit. It has become a very popular feature for many of my site visitors.

Is there such an equivalent for NewBB? If there is, I can't find it. I realize there is a "Recent Topics" block that can be implemented, but I would like to have users have the option to bring up a list of new posts in every forum since they last checked.

I would really like to use NewBB for the new site when it goes live, but this is a major issue that I need to resolve, or I will need to look at alternatives. Does it exist?

Thanks in advance!

Scott
http://www.scancapecod.net

Strongly second that. I'm a phpBB fan. They use a similar feature 'View posts since last visit'. I already made a feature request in this thread. NewBB's notifications and recent post blocks are good, but in a busy thread you get a shed load of PMs to deal with and the items you might be interested in soon dissapear from the recent posts block.

If you search, you'll find there are third-party phpBB and IPB board mods that can be used with XOOPS and they seem very good. However, IMHO, NewBB seems the better supported option at present for upgrades and security patches. As a forum is a core component of most portals that's a pretty important consideration.

Last night I came across a supposed hack at either this site or at the development site, that apparently allowed for "posts since last visit" to be viewed. However, the link to that hack was broken, and I can find no other reference to such a hack at either this or the development site.

Does anyone know of where this hack can be downloaded? All I am interested in is having this feature work in the NewBB message forum; it doesn't even need to work for the rest of the site.

Frustrating, as I was close to going online with the new system. A poll conducted at my old site indicates that a high percentage of users would miss this feature.