"Mark This Forum Read" Function/Link
 

I know a lot of you read this board via the "View New Posts" link on the index, but do any of you go forum to forum like me?

The "Mark This Forum Read" link used to refresh the forum, but now clicking that link takes you back to the main index page - very handy - 1 less click :)

I go to view new posts and right mouse click and open each thread that I want to read in a new tab, then I click mark as read and close that tab.

I suspect most people that have used this software a lot, use the view new posts :)

Silly me - I thought all these lovely categorized forums that we set up so that people didn't have to sift thru the topics they didn't want to see was part of the reason this board was so successful |violin|

Never used it i just read hehe

i go from forum to forum, or when i get an email i go thru the email link and then start forum to forum, i just like to read its a nice break|violin|

I leap frog from forum to forum. I end up reading all of them by the time I'm done though.

I do it like Cleo does... works well;)

DD

I just log out then back in later and read whichever forums have new posts according to the icon thingy

It has become apparent from reading this thread that only two people so far on this board actually know how to use a tabbed browser.
|couch|

Oh man....I sense a poll :D

How many surf this using the "Mark Forum Read" fuction and the "Go to 1st new post" arrow next to the thread?

I think both of those save a lot of time trying to find your place in threads that you've already read, but soeone posted something new to them.

|pcsucks| I've been doing this the hard way

Yeah- that's what I do.

You can still just skip posts that are in the products/services offered...but at least you see all new threads.

That's the way I do it also. I start from the last page if there is more than one and work my way back to the newest post.

For those of you that use the "View New Posts" function, how do you do it?

Not that I'm an idiot & don't know how it works, but I just clicked on it & there's 2 pages of new posts for me. Would you go to the bottom of page 2?

Once you read a thread, do you click back or go to the index & click the "View New Posts" link again?

Assuming you are using a browser that has tabs see the second post on this thread. ;)

Oh you people & your silly little fancy browsers with tabs & whatnot! :)

Well, even in IE I used to use new posts.

Just read the thread/new messages then go back.

But yeah- in FF it's a lot easier.

The e-mail subscriptions to threads makes it easy to be involved too.

So, I check e-mail, see the threads that have new replies that I'm subscribed to, read those then do the new posts.

I have that feature unchecked. I don't like filling my inbox everytime I open my mouth. Which, according to Buddy Christ, is far too often.
|buddy|

I'm much too active on this board to end up with an inbox full notices that someone has replied to a thread.

I can't stand surfing with a browser that doesn't have tabs. If I do I hold down the Command key (Windows it is the Shift key) to open the thread in a new window. This is how I always did it before I started using a browser with tabs.

If it's not something I'm interested in I just uncheck the subscription. :)

I don't know anything about those fancy browsers, but I have always used the "View New Posts" that shows up on the forumn index page. I read the first tread and then use the back key to go back to the 'new post index'. Of course you can right click and open the tread in a new window, but I know some folls that dislike new windows.

Tabs same thing but you still only have one window, just another tab in it.

Do this to all the threads that you want to read and they all end up fully loaded and waiting for you to read them.

Tabs load in the background so you can be doing something else while waiting for a page to load, like finishing reading the page that you are on.

Same

There are two type of uses. Ones that use tabs and ones that haven't yet.

I can't live without tabs now.

It's *soooo* much more efficient in every way.

I've also seen Mozilla [firefox mostly] climb to 10% overall in my stats right below IE6.

Pretty impressive IMO.

I view it as forums, and more around as I see fit. I avoid the "new" function so I don't have to read or look at stuff that doesn't interest me.

Alex

It seems you must view new threads and decide whether they are worth clicking or not either way.

I don't see how viewing old threads with no new discussions is better, but it's mostly just habit how one reads a board.

I was thinking the same thing when I was reading Alex's post.

I only want to be presented with a page of choices that I haven't seen before.

That's almost exactly what I do... The first time I read the board each day there is usually 3 pages, sometimes 2. I go to page 3, scan the threads from the bottom up. If I see one that looks interesting I glance over at the author, and some times the number of posts. I seldom pay attention to which forum it's in.

Then I hit the back (thumb) button on my mouse, and do page 2, then page 1... then hit refresh to see if there are any new posts (I check the time of the last post first), then I 'mark all forums read'..... it's not as complicated as it sounds.... really |jester|

WOW! I am amazed at a lot of your board reading habits :)

When I read, I go from forum to forum. I click the little green arrow on the left of the thread so that I am taken to the 1st unread post in that thread. After I post or read the thread, I click the little "go" box on the bottom left to go back to that forum. When I am done with thr forum, I click the "mark forum read" link, which clears out all the threads & marks them as read & takes me back to the board's index.

I then go to the next forum that had unread posts & continue doing that until each forum is "read" & has no new posts.

I can only think of 2 or 3 times after I was away form the board for 48 hours or so that I have more than 1 page of threads with new replies on any forum (and usualy it's just this forum)

And like I said before, we have the board set up so that you don't have to look at the things that don't interest you, so unless your one of the obsessive-compulsive types that has to read each & every post, why not just read the forums that pertain to you & not bother with those that don't?

Why not read new threads a handful at a time so that you don't become lost on busy days?

Seems to me that a few of you are doing to much work & possibly confusing yoursleves :D

aw, cleo, at times I am borderline ADD... I don't read all the new threads all at the same time, I often wander off on a quest long before that would happen. So I nibble and graze. Since the board is nice enough to tell me which sections have new posts in them, I can just go in at my leisure and check out the list of threads for the section and see if any of it is interesting.

No reason to be trapped in the "I gotta read all the new stuff before it gets old" thing for me.

:-)

Alex

In my case, I never know what might be interesting until I see it. |jester| I don't read every thread by a long shot. I'd say 1/3 on a good day (and I left out that, yes I do use the arrow to go to the first unread post) I don't even read all of the posts in a thread sometimes.

Look at it this way.... next time someone bitches about getting their posts moved to the spam board. You now have proof that even more people see their thread than it seems..... even if we don't click on it. |rasta|

There are usually 2 pages of threads when I go to read.

I consider it part of work to read the board.

It's how I start each morning. :)