Originally Posted by
IBobi
OK. Apparently this is a very complex issue.
The functionality is supposed to be as you described. Click Next, go to the next newest *new thread*, or the next thread with a *new post*. If that's not happening, there's more than one possible reason. One is, it's not working as designed -- but tech does not seem to believe that.
The other possibility is that between the time when you come into the thread you're currently reading and the time when you click Next, the list of threads in that forum has changed and the table the tool is using to determine what the "next" thread is, is out of date -- therefore it won't take you where you think you should go. To relieve this, you can try refreshing the page before clicking Next.
Tech is also going to try a back-end experiment that may or may not resolve this. If it does, great. If not... try the refresh page trick.
Paul
At first I thought that perhaps the problem was indeed that there were posts in the interim, but this clearly doesn't seem to be the case in the examples I provided in my post #4 and post #6 above. In both cases, I wondered whether FT was using a cached version of the forum to determine which thread was Next or Previous, but the problem occurs when FT doesn't seem to otherwise be having database problems.