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New Postings count not updating for hub threads
Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Started conversation Oct 13, 2003
On the new conversations list it tells you the number of new posting that have arrived since you last looked at a particular thread. For threads from h2g2, when you go to the thread the 'new posts' count is reset and shows as 'no new posts' when the convo list is next refreshed. That thread is also marked as read.
So far so good.
But if the thread is from the Hub the New Posts count isn't updated and the thread is not marked as read.
Amy 
New Postings count not updating for hub threads
Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Oct 13, 2003
I had this earlier for ww2. This is the way the new authentication system works. You need to 'sign in' to the other site before the auth info is passed to DNA so that it knows that it's you and updates your posts read info.
So in short: visit the hub, click 'sign in'. And accept the terms.
New Postings count not updating for hub threads
Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Oct 13, 2003
Thanks, Spelugx 
. I'll go and do that now. Does that mean we have a cookie for each site then? Or does the 'remember me' box now only apply to h2g2?
New Postings count not updating for hub threads
Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Oct 13, 2003
No, if you read the screen you get, you'll discover that this is just an improved version of what used to happen (or not happen as was more likely) where on your first post to a dna site you had to accept the house rules for that site.
Only now it works 
The info about which sites you've agreed with is stored in the SSO database (each dna site is a separate SSO service; the dna people argued for just a single dna service, but it was decided that separate services were better in the long-term), and DNA is only told who you are once you've accepted the terms.
New Postings count not updating for hub threads
Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Oct 13, 2003
If I ever get past the Technical Difficulties screen I'll agree to just about anything 
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New Postings count not updating for hub threads
Rho Posted Oct 13, 2003
It's a good thing that no sneaky clauses found their way into that screen. I have to admit that I didn't read it either!
Rho
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New Postings count not updating for hub threads
- 1: Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive (Oct 13, 2003)
- 2: Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged (Oct 13, 2003)
- 3: Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive (Oct 13, 2003)
- 4: Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged (Oct 13, 2003)
- 5: Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive (Oct 13, 2003)
- 6: Rho (Oct 13, 2003)
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