8mm Forum: [Forum] Notification e-mail not linked to new post?

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Posted by Berend De Meyer (Member # 5856) on July 21, 2017, 06:45 AM:

Hi admin,

Why do the links in the notifications not link to the new post but to the 1st post of the whole thread. Did I miss a setting?

Cheers

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on July 21, 2017, 09:54 AM:

Berend,

Yes, the links on the "Today's Active Topics" page will take you to the start of the thread. If you go to the Home page or the individual Forum pages and click on the blue arrow after the Topic name, you will be taken to the most recent post.

Doug

Posted by Berend De Meyer (Member # 5856) on July 23, 2017, 09:54 AM:

Hi Doug,

Thanks for your reply. When I click the link in the e-mail notification I'm directed to the first post in its thread.

quote:
Hello,

A user has replied to a topic you created at 8mm Forum. Here are the details:

Forum: 8mm Forum
Subject: Somikon HD-XL Film Scanner & Digitizer (Super) 8mm - EU market
Who Replied: Roy Woodward

View Topic @ http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=011449

Why not redirect to the new post itself?

Cheers

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on July 23, 2017, 02:52 PM:

Berend,

I will forward your suggestion on to Forum owner Brad Miller.

Doug

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on July 24, 2017, 11:55 AM:

I haven't used this feature in years. Honestly I'm not sure if it will direct to the most recent post or not. This forum's software was heavily reprogrammed to behave in various ways to improve it, but that wasn't part of the updates and I no longer have access to those programmers.

When you close your browsers (all of them if you have more than one open) and then you go back to the 8mm forum, does it ask you to login? If so that's why it can't redirect automatically. You would need to store your login info in your browser and then it might be able to. (Someone may want to test this.)

Posted by Berend De Meyer (Member # 5856) on July 28, 2017, 05:00 AM:

Hi Brad,

Thanks you for your reply! No I always use auto-login with al my forums on my Mac. So when I click on a link in an e-mail for this forum, I get redirect to is with Chrome and will be redirected to the first post of the linked thread.

Cheers

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