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'Posts since last visit' option?

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Cyn at 18 Dec 2005: 03:24

All right, so I know I'm not the only person here that gets a little tired of scrolling past old posts in many threads just to get to the new ones at the bottom, and finding some threads with more new posts than the display threshold, so I'm suggesting a new option (so to speak) for the site: "Posts Since Last Visit".

The concept seems like it would be kind of simple to implement; your cookies already store the post number at your last visit (the numbers in red in the menu have increased since you looked last), so I'm suggesting either:
- A [NEW] button by each category, and/or...
- A different linked "Posts since last visit" menu, with some kind of "Mark board as read" option for each section.

In these, they would show all the new posts as completely expanded threads, so no having to click [Reply] if there have been more than 5 posts(ish).

I probably wouldn't be the only one using this, and a feature like this could potentially save tons of bandwidth by not having to keep sending the thumbnails at the beginning of every thread and others in threads with few replies. Doesn't sound too hard to do from a programmer's POV, but then again, I have no idea what the code to these boards even looks like now. xD

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at 18 Dec 2005: 08:12

activate javascript, look at the side-bar

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Cyn at 18 Dec 2005: 19:36

Well, I see the boards, Home, Rules, DNP, FAQ, Mod Decisions, IRC, links... Where are you going with this? :P

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at 18 Dec 2005: 20:47

note the numbers on the side? are they red? if so, click the date/time above it. are they white now? if so, wait an hour, click the time again.

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