I’ve made the mark as read / new posts code work faster, but it acts a bit differently.
Once you’re done reading all of the forums, hit the ‘mark as read’, and this will tag all the forums as “Ive read these up to right now”. Meaning, the new flag is date-based, not individual-post-based. Its faster, and now it works like very other forum out there!
Thanks for the update
Uh…yeah…
I didn’t realize that it would tag ALL forums across the site. I hit it while I was in a particular forum.
It IS quick…I do like that.
And now…I have to remember to hit it after I’ve read all the forums. Of course, that WAS the instruction.
If it works like its been designed to, I’m going to move the “mark as read” to the main forum index page, and change it to “Mark all forums as read”… a bit more clear.
Yeah, but will it be clear enough for folks like me? 
I’ll just have to change my habits a bit. No big deal. Or is that no BFD? 
Right now, I click on a forum that has new topics…read them, and then hit forums again, to see what’s still new.
Maybe it’s time for a “new topics” screen?
Anyway, I sure do like that speed!
I really like the speed, but I have a hard time remembering which forum I’ve read.
Yeah, me too. But I always had to be retrained after a coffee break.
I do miss the automagic marking of a forum after I read it…
Maybe not active topics, but a “not read” topics. Of course I still might want some of that ol’ magic.
Thanks Bob. Now all I have to do is try and understand how to use it.
Bruce, I have to agree with you… I used the “new remarks” check, as my guide as to what I haven’t read new…
I do like the way the new “Mark all as read” works, quick & efficient, nice work, Bob… Don’t suppose we can have our cake and eat it too… 
Bruce Chandler said:Well, we do have to make allowances for Army veterans. :lol:
Yeah, but will it be clear enough for folks like me? ;)
I’ve had to adopt a new strategy to keep my place, but so long as nobody posts while I’m reading, I shouldn’t miss any posts. And it is much faster being able to use Back rather than re-loading the index.
Any way to do both?
I’d sure like to have each topic updated as I read it…
Workin’ on it. The way it works now is an interim step, I hope.
Thanks.
It’s hard for us old farts to change our habits.
And the more I think about it I think it need to “Mark all Read” where ever you are. For instance, you pop into a forum and see 81 new topics that you don’t really want to read…just hit “mark all read” and it takes care of THAT forum, but none of the others. If you do it at the all forum level, it would act like it does now - mark all of them read.
Well, I hit Mark All Read" after reading what I thought was all of the Forums’ newly updated subject. Funny, I missed this one in the “Website” about the update. I think I got the jist of most of the stuff.
Well, I’m absolutely lost now. I think I’ve read most of the postings, but all I can do is work off the date and time. Half way through reading the post this morning it cleared all new messages and started over with a new post. Really interested in how other people are keeping up with what they have read and not read.
It gets a little confusing, but I start at the top, then work my way down through each forum and each post I want to read. When I get to the bottom, I go back into the General Forum and Mark All Posts read.
I do end up opening the same post a few times and if a post gets updated in a forum after I’ve passed through, but before I’m done, I will miss that update.
Thanks for the updated , mark all post read , its a lot faster now .
Its definitely a case of two steps forward, one back.