# "New Posts" feature not working? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 5, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-posts-feature-not-working/297841 "2005-04-05T14:30:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mcms\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mcms\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcms_cricket)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-posts-feature-not-working/297841/1 "2005-04-05T14:30:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-posts-feature-not-working/297841/2 "2005-04-05T15:10:25Z")
Yes, it’s hosed. I started a thread on it the other day. [Search IDs expire too soon](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=309768) 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/](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. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-posts-feature-not-working/297841/3 "2005-04-05T15:41:58Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-posts-feature-not-working/297841/4 "2005-04-05T17:29:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jdavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jdavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdavis)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-posts-feature-not-working/297841/5 "2005-04-05T17:44:55Z")
I posted a recommended workaround for this problem from the vBulletin forums [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6023088#post6023088). Jerry ---
**Author:** ![mcms\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mcms\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcms_cricket)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-posts-feature-not-working/297841/6 "2005-04-05T20:29:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-posts-feature-not-working/297841/7 "2005-04-05T21:22:40Z")
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