"New Posts" feature not working?

[mcms_cricket]

I've noticed something a bit strange that seems to date from the upgrade. I used to be able to click on the "New Posts" feature and then leave the results screen up as I paged through, right-clicking on interesting posts (choosing the "open in new window/open in new tab" option, depending on my browsers). If there were many pages of new posts, than sometimes the results page(es) would be up all day as I worked my way through it during breaks and lunch. However, In the past few days, something weird keeps happening. - not every single time, but maybe 1/2 the time. I'll click on the "New Posts" feature, start working my way through the results pages, and then at one point, when I click to go to the next page of results, I'll get an error message that says something like "no results matching your terms" * When I try to click the Back button to go back to the previous page of results, I get the same message. I can't get that result set back again. The only option I have is to go back to the boards (there's no direct link from that "error" page) and click on "new posts" again - but of course then I only get the new posts from the first time I clicked on it.

Am I the only one who's suddenly seeing this?


*Sorry, I thought I'd kept the window open so I could quote the message exactly, but apparently I closed it. The next time it happens, I'll paste the message here.

[AHunter3]

Yes, it's hosed. I started a thread on it the other day. Search IDs expire too soon

Want to know how I'm browsing at the moment? I did my "New Posts" search, then quickly loaded each of the 10 pages' worth and saved them to my hard disk. Now when I see an interesting thread, I right-click and copy the URL, open a new window, type out "http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/" paste, delete the "file:///Volumes/Cambrian/Desktop%20Folder/" portion of the local URL, leaving the "showthread.php?t=310368" part appended to the front of the URL.

Otherwise, as you said, there's no way to preserve the set of New Posts found long enough to get past ~ page 4. Last night I had a searchid expire in less than 2 hours.


If it lasts more than a couple more days I'm going to have to write macros to automate the process.

[TubaDiva]

It's working fine, it just doesn't last as long as you would like, that's all.

As I did in the other thread, I'll refer it to Jerry, but I don't know what he can or will do about this.

your humble TubaDiva

[Chronos]

You could also just open each page of "New Posts" in a new window or tab, and just keep those windows open until you're done with them. Sounds a lot easier than what you're proposing.

[jdavis]

I posted a recommended workaround for this problem from the vBulletin forums here.

Jerry

[mcms_cricket]

Whoops - sorry about that . I did look to see if there was another thread about this, but obviously I didn't look closely enough.

Ugh. That sucks that it won't work the way it used to. Up until a few days ago, I could definitely do a "new posts" and spend all day going through the pages. I'll try the save-to-the-hard-drive thing, but yuck.

At any rate, thanks for the quick responses.

[TubaDiva]

It does seem that in the upgrade vB giveth and taketh away as well. I'm so sorry this has affected our users negatively.

your humble TubaDiva