Rob
Well-Known Member
Keeping track of unread posts
Let me start by saying, if this sounds like a rant it's unintentional. I am genuinely struggling to keep track of new posts on this new forum and would like to find out if I am doing something wrong or if improvements are needed.
First of all I am having trouble with getting tapatalk to mark topics as read, so if I read a topic and even post a reply via tapatalk and return to the web based forum the topics are unread. I would use the mobile website but that layout has recently been broken.
Now on the full website forum, there are 2 buttons that I can click to see what has been posted, what's new and new posts. If I click on what's new I can select how far back I would like to go, but I cannot go to the last unread post in a thread and there is a lot of information to sift through as every time someone posts a reply to a topic it generates another event line. It is also unclear if I have read the topic or not when listed in the what's new area. If I click on new posts it only seems to go back a very short amount of time, I have on a few occasions had a long list of unread posts only to find them all to disappear once I have refreshed. There does not seem to be an option to extend how far back in time the new posts list goes. I also suspect that the tapatalk's unread list is the same as new posts as it does not go back far enough.
I have also found that when you respond to a topic and some replies before you the forum does not notify you of this and marks the topic as read.
To ensure I do not miss anything I am checking in 3 locations for new activity in the following order, new posts, what's new and then browsing the forum manually. Is there a setting I can change or am I have I missed something? If not, could you increase the time it displays a topic in the new posts page to say a week? Any other ideas?
Let me start by saying, if this sounds like a rant it's unintentional. I am genuinely struggling to keep track of new posts on this new forum and would like to find out if I am doing something wrong or if improvements are needed.
First of all I am having trouble with getting tapatalk to mark topics as read, so if I read a topic and even post a reply via tapatalk and return to the web based forum the topics are unread. I would use the mobile website but that layout has recently been broken.
Now on the full website forum, there are 2 buttons that I can click to see what has been posted, what's new and new posts. If I click on what's new I can select how far back I would like to go, but I cannot go to the last unread post in a thread and there is a lot of information to sift through as every time someone posts a reply to a topic it generates another event line. It is also unclear if I have read the topic or not when listed in the what's new area. If I click on new posts it only seems to go back a very short amount of time, I have on a few occasions had a long list of unread posts only to find them all to disappear once I have refreshed. There does not seem to be an option to extend how far back in time the new posts list goes. I also suspect that the tapatalk's unread list is the same as new posts as it does not go back far enough.
I have also found that when you respond to a topic and some replies before you the forum does not notify you of this and marks the topic as read.
To ensure I do not miss anything I am checking in 3 locations for new activity in the following order, new posts, what's new and then browsing the forum manually. Is there a setting I can change or am I have I missed something? If not, could you increase the time it displays a topic in the new posts page to say a week? Any other ideas?
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