[eluser]andrewtheandroid[/eluser]
Quote:Well I see few possible solutions here:
1. Use additional field in db for thread which will hold user ids who read the thread and when you display just check user id against that field. It might get big but if you make it so that every time a new response is posted, that field is erased and a thread is marked as new again... Something like this:
12 456 45 88 etc..
Would this be ok for a group of around 500 users with light to casual forum usage in terms of performance?
Quote:Forgot to mention for the first one that I think is how vbulletin actually works or some kind of hack for it or something and that I've read about it in the past... If I dig up a link I'll post it...
Keen to be updated on this.
I noticed some of the forums that I use that are powered by vbulletin if I go to a thread i'm now "subscribed" to taht thread and that any other threads i haven't opened i haven't "read". So does vbulletin simply check my list of subscribed threads?
