Topic: Number of last topic

[tomeh]

Hi how to increase the number of displayed topics in the last portal, say from 32 to 100

[phantomm]

You have in block settings how many posts to show

[tomeh]

Entering 100 will get everyone up to 32

[phantomm]

Well, I tried to display 100 latest topics/posts and it works for me...
But maybe someone else will know what causes the issue

[tomeh]

I do not know whether we are talking about the same block in terms of Section News - which displays a summary topics after determining how many letters to them to be seen

[andy]

Might be related to  SMF deciding what is 'recent' and what is old - maybe you only have 32 'recent' topics. There was another post here about it recently.

[phantomm]

I do not know whether we are talking about the same block

What is name of this block (in settings)?

[tomeh]

The name of the block are:

Board News

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I think I have a solution

It should be noted there all forums in the settings - otherwise displays only 32 subjects also from all for

Take a look - so it is somehow made

[AngelinaBelle]

Yes.

This is something that comes up frequently in boardnews and in recent posts/topics.
If you are using only one board for this, you will see the problem.

Here is why:
How does the block decide how far back in time to look for the earliest post for the block?
In recent/posts topics, this decision is made in SSI.php, and you can see the posts about it.

In boardnews, that decision is made in function sp_boardNews.

The answer is 'min_msg_id' => $modSettings['maxMsgID'] - 45 * min($limit, 5),
If there were not some limit, the query would have to check all the way back to the VERY FIRST post on your forum.
For new forums, this is not a problem.  For a very old forum with lots of old posts, this would slow down every page with this block on it, and make extra CPU on the database server.

That means it can only ever check the most recent 45*5 = 225 posts.  If your forum members have made 226 posts on other boards which are newer than every post on the "boardnews" board, then you will even see 0 posts in boardnews!

To fix the problem, replace 45 with some higher number.  Compare the rate of adding new posts to the other boards to the rate of adding new posts to the "boardnews" boards.  Pick the smallest number that will work well for your forum.

Good luck!