"Mark This Forum Read" Function/Link

[Greenguy]

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

[Cleo]

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.

[Jim]

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

[Greenguy]

Originally posted by Jim
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

[tiny]

Never used it i just read hehe

[stuveltje]

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

[Useless]

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

[DangerDave]

I do it like Cleo does... works well

DD

[Porn Meister]

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

[Cleo]

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.

[Greenguy]

Oh man....I sense a poll

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.

[T Pat]

Originally posted by Greenguy
Oh man....I sense a poll

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.

I've been doing this the hard way

[Alphawolf]

Originally posted by Greenguy
Oh man....I sense a poll

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.

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.

[Trev]

Originally posted by Alphawolf
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.

[Greenguy]

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?

[Cleo]

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

[Greenguy]

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

[Alphawolf]

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.

[Useless]

Originally posted by Alphawolf

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.

[Cleo]

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.

[Alphawolf]

Originally posted by Useless Warrior
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.

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

[Chop Smith]

Originally posted by Greenguy
Oh you people & your silly little fancy browsers with tabs & whatnot!

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.

[Cleo]

Originally posted by Chop Smith
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.

[Ramster]

Originally posted by DangerDave
I do it like Cleo does... works well

DD

Same

[Cleo]

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