In an ideal world, I would have posted an update this week that asynchronously pulls and displays the actual new posts without the need of a complete reload. Unfortunately I won't be making this feature.
Reason for this is that I would have to rebuild most of
viewtopic.php
to make things work as they should:
- Check auth for visibillity (don't show unapproved or soft deleted posts to regular users)
- Friends/foes check
- Display moderator tools for posts if needed
- Mark read status
- Handle correct sort order
- Parse attachments
- Fetch user profile fields
- Handle notification marks (when you're quoted and show the post, mark notification as read)
- Handle all the 15 events in viewtopic
And probably more I've missed at this moment.
Also, It would probably make things quite difficult to keep up to date with each phpBB update.
Another thing that would be quite a PITA is that there is no separate template file for a post row, there is only 1 template file for the complete viewtopic page. Of course I could simple copy it and strip the unnecessary parts, but it will also mean that users with other style than prosilver will probably complain about errors.
All in all it comes down to the fact that
viewtopic.php
is quite old school in it's code, hasn't changed very much in the last decade (just a few features shoved into it).
TL;DR: functionality of this extension won't change: clicking on the bar will simply reload the viewtopic page and direct you to the first unread post.
My extensions:
Simple CMS, Feed post bot, Avatar Resize, Modbreak, Magic OGP, Live topic update, Modern Quote, Quoted Where (GDPR) and Autoresponder.
Newest: FAQ manager for 3.2
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