* Unread Posts v. New Posts

[AdrianBruce]

I think I'm missing some posts when I go into the Forum and ask it to View New Posts.

For instance, I just went into the New Posts, read them and then, as a double check, went into View Unread Posts - and there were posts there from today that I feel I should have seen in View New Posts but haven't. For instance, the thread "Private Facts" in "General Usage" was updated with a new post by "lindad" at 17 Jan 2016, 18:14. But I never saw it in View New Posts, only in View Unread Posts.

There is one possibility - the new post in question might have come along after I'd done an earlier View New Posts, but before I'd finished reading / replying to those new posts. That's distinctly possible. If the forum applies a date and time to decide what "new" means - is that the date and time of me asking to View New Posts, or it it the date and time that I err.... what? depart the forum?

I had assumed that the date and time applied was the previous date and time that I asked for my new posts.

PS I was checking here because I am definitely missing new posts on the WDYTYA forum. I've no idea if the underlying software there is the same as here.

[tatewise]

I think the two options are completely unrelated, and I think are defined as:

View unread posts are postings you have never read - obviously.

View new posts are topics with a posting within the last 3 hours (or so) whether you have read them or not.

If I View new posts now at 10:13 pm it includes all after about Sun Jan 17, 2016 7:16 pm.

[AdrianBruce]

According to the phpBB Usage Guide, the predefined search View New Posts does this:

View new posts - Returns a list of topics containing posts which have been made since the last time you logged in.

The way I read that, I should have seen everything since I last asked for stuff. At least those. Unless the last time I logged in is defined by my last activity. It's certainly not the last X hours.