wino wrote:
when I logged on this morning there were about 12-15 new post threads showing. That was too many as I had to workout so I logged off. I came back 45 minutes later, login and there are only two threads. WHAT HAPPENED? I never opened any of the first group.
Usually, that ain't how it works.
Maybe I'm in a minority, but I don't use the "new posts" feature. Instead what I do is pay attention to the icons on the threads and fora.
On the home page, a forum with no unread posts has this icon at the left side:
While a foum with unread posts has this icon:
So then I click on the forum with unread posts. In that forum the threads with unread posts are again marked with a pink-colored icon:
as opposed to a thread where I've read all of the posts, which has no icon. Clicking on the pink icon takes me directly to the first unread post in that thread.
This way I can read all of the new messages in the entire board in the span of a couple of minutes. If I forget and skip over a thread or two it will remain marked as unread the next time I visit the board. The disadvantage is that I end up reading the entire board, including some threads I don't particularly care for. On the other hand, around here you never know what direction a thread will take, so it's all good.
