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  • January 11, 2009 at 4:27 pm #77524
    Tango
    Member

    please. It maketh so much more convenient, to follow a thread.

    January 11, 2009 at 7:27 pm #90445
    BlueSteel
    Participant

    Well isn’t that sort of why there is the “latest post” thing next to the forums and the topics?

    January 11, 2009 at 10:07 pm #90454
    Ned Flanders
    Moderator

    I get emails about all the latest threads, you can set your account to notify you of this in the user control section.

    January 11, 2009 at 10:56 pm #90464
    McHaven
    Moderator

    I don’t want emails about every post. Right now, I get emails about new threads in forums I moderate, and that’s enough for me. I am a strong supporter of the “go to newest unread post” idea though.

    The blue/grey icons are fine, but if you’re like me, you don’t want to miss a thing. So, even if I click on the latest post on the right, I may not have seen all the posts before that that I’ve missed. Then I have to open up the sub-forum, and go and open all those threads and then repeat until I’ve read the entire forum.

    Maybe I’m just a whiner, but I strongly agree with the idea to implement this. It’d make it a lot easier for some of us to be able to see all the information being posted.

    January 12, 2009 at 11:15 pm #90562
    Tango
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    I get emails about all the latest threads, you can set your account to notify you of this in the user control section.

    I don’t want emails. I do want an easy way to pick up where I left off. This isn’t about coming up with workarounds; these are things which should be present in order to have a streamlined site that isn’t a headache to use.

    January 12, 2009 at 11:44 pm #90572
    electro-melx
    Moderator

    can you link me to a forum that has this feature so I can understand exactly what you are suggesting?

    It may or may not be possible, but if I can see how it works I will make sure it is brought to the attention of Scott, who will then see if it’s possible and if seems a good/practical idea to add the feature to the forum.

    January 13, 2009 at 1:10 am #90584
    Scott Matthews (EHX Staff)
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    can you link me to a forum that has this feature so I can understand exactly what you are suggesting?

    It may or may not be possible, but if I can see how it works I will make sure it is brought to the attention of Scott, who will then see if it’s possible and if seems a good/practical idea to add the feature to the forum.

    I think I understand the request — that you can jump to the oldest post within a thread that came after your last visit — a somewhat more complicated implementation would be to track each thread you’ve viewed independently (though I doubt many forums behave that way b/c of the overhead).

    But basically I’m at the mercy of the features of this particular forum — we can sometimes justify custom coding, but not always — and I think this forum’s default behavior is to jump you to the “most recent” post, and I don’t think that there’s a built-in mechanism to jump to the “oldest post since my last visit” — but I’ll ask the next time I’m chatting with the devs…

    -Scott

    January 13, 2009 at 1:34 am #90587
    Tango
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    can you link me to a forum that has this feature so I can understand exactly what you are suggesting?

    It may or may not be possible, but if I can see how it works I will make sure it is brought to the attention of Scott, who will then see if it’s possible and if seems a good/practical idea to add the feature to the forum.

    Let’s see… Muse.mu boards, talkbass, harmony central, and ubuntu, which is pretty much every other forum I’ve ever used.

    January 13, 2009 at 9:03 am #90607
    electro-melx
    Moderator

    They have it on HC? I didn’t know that!! I guess I just don’t read forums in the same way.

    January 13, 2009 at 9:22 am #90613
    McHaven
    Moderator

    Not exactly the same, but a similiar idea is to use the RSS feeds, which I just noticed we had.

    January 13, 2009 at 10:57 pm #90674
    Tango
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    They have it on HC? I didn’t know that!! I guess I just don’t read forums in the same way.

    I believe they have it… I don’t remember for sure, as I don’t use HC regularly, but it would be the little arrow icon to the left of the thread title.

    January 13, 2009 at 11:35 pm #90681
    electro-melx
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    They have it on HC? I didn’t know that!! I guess I just don’t read forums in the same way.

    I believe they have it… I don’t remember for sure, as I don’t use HC regularly, but it would be the little arrow icon to the left of the thread title.

    I just looked and yes they do have it!

    I have nearly 14000 posts on there and never used it…..I never even noticed it until you pointed it out. :facepalm:

    …..I will leave this thread now. :freak:

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