losing posts

[guest311]

anyone else find they have tons of posts to read, read one then return to unread posts and find most have disappeared ?

[njee20]

Nope, not noticed that. Are you perhaps using "unread posts since last visit", which will be a much shorter list?

[squit13]

I right click and open new tab on each topic of interest. Means I dont miss anything in theory!

[Newportnobby]

Sorry - not heard of that problem and I'm on here too much every day

[guest311]

Nope, not noticed that. Are you perhaps using "unread posts since last visit", which will be a much shorter list?

that's right.
yesterday I clicked on 'unread since last visit' and got about 20 posts, opened one to read, then went 'back' to return to the list, but there were only 2 posts on the list.

I'll try the right click and open in a new tab and see if that makes any difference.

many thanks

[njee20]

Because your 'last visit' is refreshed, so you get posts since you opened the previous thread. Just use "all unread posts" to get a list of all posts in chronological order.

[railsquid]

An issue similar to what issue @class37025 is having, is that this forum software doesn't seem to have any way of listing recently updated threads, regardless of whether you've read them or not.

Which is annoying if you say read a thread on your phone, then want to come back to it later on the PC to write an answer, as it will have disappeared from the "unread posts" (actually: "threads with unread posts") list.

There is a list of recent posts here: http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=recent but it's literally the contents of all recent posts.

[port perran]

That's a good point raised by railsquid if I understand it correctly.
I sometimes read a post and think that I'll reply later.
When I go back, I can't remember what the thread was called or who posted so it's hard to track down.

[railsquid]

That's a good point raised by railsquid if I understand it correctly.
I sometimes read a post and think that I'll reply later.
When I go back, I can't remember what the thread was called or who posted so it's hard to track down.

Exactly.

Actually come to think of it, the individual subforums do display threads in the order they've been updated in, it'd be useful to have that view for the entire site. Dunno if the forum software actually provides that though.

[Tank]

If you have trouble remembering (as I do!) then just mark is as 'Mark Unread', or 'Add Bookmark'.  Then delete the bookmark when you've finished.

I only ever push the 'Show All Unread Posts' button at the top.

[njee20]

Yes I do as Railsquid quite often - open something on my phone, think "I'll reply to that on my computer" then spend longer finding it than if I'd just replied on my phone