LQ UserCP

mdg · 12-05-2005, 11:00 AM

There used to be a feature in the CP enabling a "search for posts from X hours ago", a very handy tool that I used a lot.

Has this feature been moved/replaced? Actually, the whole UserCP seems to have disappeared

Charred · 12-05-2005, 11:18 AM

The UserCP is "My LQ" at the top, or the first link in the "My LQ" menu at the right. I don't know what to tell you about the post search feature, sorry.

trickykid · 12-05-2005, 11:49 AM

I don't know of any search feature that enabled your search to go back a certain number of hours but if you want the advanced search page, it's here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/search.php

jeremy · 12-05-2005, 12:33 PM

The UserCP is still here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/usercp.php
Much of that functionality has been rolled into the advanced search, but not right down to the hour. What value did you find yourself using for x?

--jeremy

mdg · 12-05-2005, 02:06 PM

Often I don't have time to read through all the new posts of the day and I log out or visit a different site. Later, when I check into LQ again, the posts I didn't finish reading are no longer classed as new.
I could then search for posts from 6 or 8 hours ago (depending how much time has passed) and pick up what I missed.

syg00 · 12-05-2005, 08:07 PM

Allow me to add a "+1" to the OP.
I used to find this an extremely handy feature. Ditto refresh on "latest posts" - refresh doesn't pick up new posts, and using the quick links to show the new(est) ones loses the ones you are looking at.
Very distracting - especially if you are planning on answering a post.
This is directly contrary to the way it used to work.

You can't use search without a keyword, and I generally don't bother with what forum a post is in if just scanning.
Guess it means less posts get answered.

jeremy · 12-05-2005, 08:31 PM

Can someone please add the "posts from last X hours" to the bug tracker as a feature request? We should be able to get to it ASAP. As for the search refresh - we are aware of it and do consider it a bug. We're working to resolve it now. Thanks for the feedback.

--jeremy

jeremy · 12-05-2005, 08:49 PM

The feature has been added, but there's no front end to it yet. I may hold off on that until a change that we have in store for a future update. In the meantime, you can access it directly. The following link will get you the last 4 hours of posts:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...tdaily&hours=4

--jeremy

syg00 · 12-05-2005, 09:02 PM

Thanks Jeremy - you're a champ. Do you still want a bug tracker for this ???.

As an aside, this also suffers from the refresh defect, but I presume you are aware of that. Do you want a bug for that as well ???.

jeremy · 12-05-2005, 09:17 PM

No bug tracker should be needed at this point. The feature is already implemented and we're aware of the bug and working on it. Thanks.

--jeremy

mdg · 12-05-2005, 10:26 PM

Works great. Thanks!