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Little suggestion

PostPosted: 14 Nov 2012, 09:25
by at240
If you look at the 'Recent Activity' list and see that someone has posted to one of the forums, clicking on the link that takes you to the relevant thread only takes you to the beginning of the thread.

Wouldn't it make more sense to be taken directly to the post concerned?

:)

Re: Little suggestion

PostPosted: 14 Nov 2012, 10:19
by Pete
A good suggestion, but there's a technical reason why that's not possible unfortunately.

The point at which the activity stream hooks into the phpBB forum code (because it's effectively a hack into that code) is before it commits the post to the database, so it doesn't know the ID of the new post, only the ID of the thread.

Pete

Re: Little suggestion

PostPosted: 14 Nov 2012, 14:10
by stevebrass
Pete wrote:A good suggestion, but there's a technical reason why that's not possible unfortunately.

The point at which the activity stream hooks into the phpBB forum code (because it's effectively a hack into that code) is before it commits the post to the database, so it doesn't know the ID of the new post, only the ID of the thread.

Pete


I always suspected this. :D

Re: Little suggestion

PostPosted: 14 Nov 2012, 14:20
by at240
Thanks Pete, useful to know.