I am not sure what you mean by a qualified fix. I haven't read hardly anything on this site. I only registered to post that I had fixed this problem.

I just installed XOOPS and cbb because a sight I frequent uses it and there was no link to view the first unread post in a topic so I thought I could add it (which I have now done).

While I was reading the code, I realized that it was a simple mistake that made the view new posts link not work.

So, I made the change. Really, it was pretty obvious from the code for viewpost.php what the link should have been.

Hopefully this fix works for other people.

viewforum.php and index.php both include an incorrect link for newposts with "new=1", this should be
"type=new"



Sorry if this has been answered before.