Now that we have a “Mark all as Read” option (bottom right of an individual forum - thanks, Vincent) I’m now trying to figure out the best way to get through the daily posts and not miss any…or mark them as read if I’m not interested.
Pressing the Home tab at the top of the screen shows me the last 15 posts under the title of Active Topics. I can click on a title that I am interested in and I immediately go to the post in question. Pretty cool.
I can get a bit more detail for each post after this in a section titled “What’s New”. You can basically view the last post in its entirety, but if you click on the “topic” link, you’ll go to the first post in that topic.
Still, if I do either of those, there’s still a chance of missing something if there were more than 15 posts since I last checked. Pretty likely, as the site is getting a lot of traffic and they don’t really show me what I haven’t read yet.
As another alternative, I can click on the ‘Forums’ link in the top frame. This will list all of the forums, but there’s no indication that there is anything new since I was last on.
However, if I click on a specific forum, such as “General Discussion”, I get what I want. Here is a list of all of the topics in that particular forum. And, just to the left of each topic is a little icon.
If that topic has replies, I see this. But, if it has posts I have not yet read, I get to see this icon on top of it
indicating that it has some posts that I have not yet read.
After viewing that list, if I see stuff I don’t really care about, I can just click on the “Mark all as read” link and go on to the next forum.
But, to go to the next forum, I have to go back to the list of forums, and then choose the next forum. Well, with my memory, I’ll probably click on the “General Discussion” forum about 3 times before I remember that I’ve been here already.
With us old farts in mind, would it be possible to have a “Next Forum” option link to click on?
Or, is there a way to show that there are unread posts in each forum when looking at the forums list?
How are you guys navigating through all the stuff? I am open to other ideas!