James Ford

Despite the different username, I'm actually the same person as "Brain Sparks" above (access to my original account somehow got lost). Anyway, two and a half years later, a new version of the software (IPB 3) and upgraded hardware, and unfortunately we're still having problems with this issue. Deletion of PMs always locks up our server badly. Anyone else suffering this? Anyone have a fix?

theGaVrA, did you ever find a solution to your problem? I have the exact same problem as you, and I understand your explanation perfectly. What I don't understand is why Brandon claims the behaviour is the same on 3.0 as 2.3. To my mind it is not the same, no matter what settings you use on 3.0. And my members are complaining the same. What I would like is a list of new content the same as on 2.3. Namely: List of all topics that have been active since last "mark all read" (not since "last session"), those that are unread have a little orange icon, those that are read have no orange icon but are still displayed. It seems, however, that with 3.0 such a listing is impossible.

Agreed with AndyMillne. The previous AJAX editing of descriptions was very handy and my moderators used it all the time. I guess it is probably quite hard to program into the new IPB 3 version, but it'd be great if it could.