Trying an experiment with forum settings

[5lakes]

Greetings!

I'm trying an experiment to see how well I can better find new posts. I use Firefox on Windows Vista. Not sure if this experiment can help others, but feel free to ask/comment.

What I did: Went to the Forum main page and clicked on "Mark Forums Read". Went back to SMF's home page with the "Recent Activity". What I noticed as new posts are displayed is the title of the thread with a new post is bold and a little red box pops up on the left side. If the screen shot below is clear enough, you can see the red box. At first, the number in the red box is 1. As I'm typing this, and refreshing the main page, several posts now have the number 2 in the red box. I'm guessing that is telling me that since I marked the forums as read, these threads have one or more new posts I haven't read yet. Am I close?

Also, I logged out, closed the browser, came back and all seems to be as I left it when I logged out. Some people have commented that marking forums as read doesn't work (or didn't). It seems to work for me, but I'm just trying to find out for sure.

Many thanx for any input.

 

[TulsaJeff]

You are right on the money.. the numbers in the box tell you how many posts there have been since you last opened that thread. When you click on the title link, it takes you to the first unread post automatically.

I think that's pretty awesome personally but that's just me

 

[5lakes]

Thanx, Jeff. It even works on my iPod Touch. I tried replying on the iPod, but that didn't work. That's OK, though, since I really don't use it for browsing...  Just thought it would be cool if it did.

As an afterthought, I tried it with Safari on my PC. All of my forum settings came up correctly, including the "mark forums read".