I noticed a new button, Forum Spy

Can you please provide more info on this, and how it affects "Getnew"

Thankyou

It also seems to have taken the TAB "New Posts" which has been moved to Quick Links.

As you can probably guess you can get real-time updates of new replies and threads using the forum spy which we will be testing for the next few weeks, hopefully server loads won't be affected dramatically by its use.

Now, because we had no more space on the menu I had to remove one of the previous items and "New posts" I believe was the easiest to sacrifice because Today's Post works more or less the same unless you have not visited for a long time. Like jobeard pointed out, it's still available from the Quick links menu.

May I suggest flipping Today into Quick Links and revert New Posts to the Tab position --
giving priority to newest changes rather than 'all of today' which can be excessive to scroll through.

It will be interesting to see where this goes.

">activity spy > subscribed threads only" moves a function buried within "my profile" > subscribed threads > list all

(btw, iff >> it gets to working)

I still don't understand it exactly
Or what the tick does, or the play button
Or what the whole thing is for
Oh and I don't like the Title name: "forum Spy"

I haven't used it, except to be confused on what it's telling me.


Also just to add to this thread (about buttons), what do these buttons do?
Because, clicking on them doesn't take me to what the Title says

""New posts" I believe was the easiest to sacrifice"

This is REALLY getting interesting!

Go Julio!!!!

That is pretty simple they do not take you anywhere, they are not meant to. They change the topic or section that you are running the search in!

Oh yer!

Well maybe they should be a drop down box or something

No the way they are makes perfect sense.

I had another look

Personal choice, I feel they are confusing
Anyway I got confused for a long time (probably doesn't say much though )

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I've changed my mind, they work now

In case it's not as straightforward as I thought, the forum spy feature is meant to be useful for users like kimsland that visit quite often.

The forum spy gives a real-time outlook of what's going on in the forum, new posts and threads created without page reloads - updates from the server every 20 seconds using AJAX.

BTW, this has nothing to do with the search box on the top which uses a tabbed interface for a one-click switch, narrowing the search scope to the section of your choice.

But it's not showing the latest threads or posts?

Actually if it did that would be good, I prefer a live scrolling screen

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Regarding the search box, when I clicked on the buttons it took me to reply or who know where (it was really strange!)
But after my post it now works perfectly, so you tell me?