By default, SMF software has the following features that let you view the most recent posts:
-Recent Unread Topics: Unread topics with new posts since last browser session. Not visible to guests.
-Updated Topics: Topics you posted in that got new posts. Session-friendly, but invisible to guests.
-Recent Posts: Latest 100 individual posts, 10 per page. Visible to everyone

On the old Omnimaga SMF forums, Recent Unread Topics was replaced with the following feature, similar to Tapatalk:
-New Posts: Latest 200 active topics on entire board. Visible to everyone.

That feature was liked by many members, because like on many other softwares, the default features present on SMF often pruned themselves if you accidentally closed your browser or had to login again. This often resulted in missed activity, which is why the New Posts replacement was appreciated.

Shortly after the upgrade, which broke compatibility with the mod used for the "New Posts" list, the Recent Posts feature was modified so that it only shows one post per topic, as a temporary measure to bring back something that looks closer to your good ol' session-timeout-friendly feature. Unfortunately, it displayed the latest post of each topic and the title of the latest post, rather than just the topic title without the content. In addition to that, only 10 topics were shown per page, for a total of 100, split in 10 pages.

Now, it seems that your good ol' favorite "New Posts" feature is back, as "Recent Posts"!

http://www.omnimaga.org/recent

This time, however, instead of showing the latest 200 active topics in one page, it now shows 50, but as a big plus, the list now includes every single thread ever posted on Omnimaga (excluding 2004), split accross several hundreds of pages! This could be handy for users who come back from a few months of hiatus and wants to catch up on what happened easier, but remember to avoid topic necromancy unless justified.

Also, since this is not a pre-made mod designed for sub-sections and sidebars, the person who worked on it (I believe it is Cooliojazz) went ahead and made it so that topics are displayed the same way as in sub-forums, giving the user much more freedom. Also, from there, if admins ever decide to setup the board so that 20000 topics per page are shown, they should now be able to delete the entire Omnimaga content in one click and if they need to monitor suspicious activity, hopefully they could be able to perform some moderation duties from there.

Enjoy!

I wondered if anyone would even notice this topic considering it took 4 days before it got approved.

And yeah normally forums use the standard recent posts feature, but it's annoying to lose the entire list everytime we close our browser. The trick is to read every new post but sometimes we don't have enough time. Hence why I added the new posts feature in 2010 and why I pushed Kerm to add his own on Cemetech.

Indeed, it is a lot better like that
The only differences with the old feature are:

• clicking on the title of the topic in that list opens the topic at its beginning instead of opening it at the last post (what opens at the last post is the button on the right)
• it only lists 20 posts

But that's already great, don't worry, I am not complaining, just listing differences :)

Yay, missed this feature!

I love how it looks like the rest of the forum. Also same as what Hayleia said : links go to the first page instead of last post. If it's possible to change that it'd be nice.

I love how it looks like the rest of the forum. Also same as what Hayleia said : links go to the first page instead of last post. If it's possible to change that it'd be nice.

If there are page buttons just hit the latest page button in the list

Yeah, i really missed that feature, i'm glad that it is back. Around here we have an old saying that goes more less like this: "If a team (or formula) is winning why change it?"

Also, a bit off-topic, but i've been tempted to put this question to web developers and/or site administrators (Eeems, Geekboy, Sorunome, other) :
'How difficult would it be to provide local storage for posts's inline (not attached) images ?'
The reason for asking has to do with the fact that all pictures' servers i've choosen to date always end-up vanishing from scene after sometime together with my dear stuff  . Any workaround up your sleeves?

We have a own image uploader: http://img.omnimaga.org

It has been there since removedfromgames didn't allow upload anymore

Quote from: SpiroH on March 23, 2014, 05:24:25 am

Quote from: Sorunome on March 23, 2014, 05:19:49 am

We have a own image uploader: http://img.omnimaga.org

Ooops, thanks! Has it been there for a longtime?

I hope img.ourl.ca stays online for a while too since it would suck to have all images taken down due to some idiot uploading adult-only material there like someone did on RFG >.<

That is why img.ourl.ca is moderated: I see every single image uploaded and I approve or delete them very easily