Prevents Lore News Pop-up On Every Connect

code/modules/client/preference_setup/global/02_settings.dm

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 /datum/category_item/player_setup_item/player_global/settings/load_preferences(var/savefile/S)
 	S["lastchangelog"]        >> pref.lastchangelog
 	S["lastnews"]             >> pref.lastnews
+	S["lastlorenews"]         >> pref.lastlorenews
 	S["default_slot"]	      >> pref.default_slot
 	S["preferences"]          >> pref.preferences_enabled
 	S["preferences_disabled"] >> pref.preferences_disabled
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@
 /datum/category_item/player_setup_item/player_global/settings/save_preferences(var/savefile/S)
 	S["lastchangelog"]        << pref.lastchangelog
 	S["lastnews"]             << pref.lastnews
+	S["lastlorenews"]         << pref.lastlorenews
 	S["default_slot"]         << pref.default_slot
 	S["preferences"]          << pref.preferences_enabled
 	S["preferences_disabled"] << pref.preferences_disabled

code/modules/client/preferences.dm

@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ var/list/preferences_datums = list()
 	var/datum/browser/panel
 
 	var/lastnews // Hash of last seen lobby news content.
+	var/lastlorenews //ID of last seen lore news article.
 
 	var/examine_text_mode = 0 // Just examine text, include usage (description_info), switch to examine panel.
 	var/multilingual_mode = 0 // Default behaviour, delimiter-key-space, delimiter-key-delimiter, off

code/modules/lore_codex/news_data/main.dm

@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@
 		/datum/lore/codex/page/about_news,
 		)
 
+	var/newsindex = "103" //Update with number of latest article
+
 /datum/lore/codex/page/about_news
 	name = "About the Publisher"
 	data = "The <i>Daedalus Pocket Newscaster</i> is produced and maintained by Occulum Broadcast, the foremost authority on media distribution \

code/modules/mob/new_player/new_player.dm

@@ -76,8 +76,13 @@
 
 	output += "</div>"
 
+	if (client.prefs.lastlorenews == GLOB.news_data.newsindex)
+		client.seen_news = 1
+
 	if(GLOB.news_data.station_newspaper && !client.seen_news)
 		show_latest_news(GLOB.news_data.station_newspaper)
+		client.prefs.lastnews = GLOB.news_data.newsindex
+		SScharacter_setup.queue_preferences_save(client.prefs)
 
 	panel = new(src, "Welcome","Welcome", 500, 480, src)
 	panel.set_window_options("can_close=0")

code/modules/news/news_init.dm

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ GLOBAL_DATUM_INIT(news_data, /datum/lore/news, new)
 /datum/lore/news
 	var/datum/feed_channel/station_newspaper
 	var/datum/lore/codex/category/main_news/news_codex = new()
+	var/newsindex
 
 /datum/lore/news/New()
 	..()
@@ -17,6 +18,10 @@ GLOBAL_DATUM_INIT(news_data, /datum/lore/news, new)
 				break
 	spawn(300) // Yes, again.
 		fill_codex_news()
+	if (!news_codex.newsindex)
+		return
+	else
+		newsindex = news_codex.newsindex
 
 /datum/lore/news/proc/fill_codex_news()
 	if(!news_network)