topic Re: Unread Posts in Discussions & Feedback

Unread Posts

jonsie — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:20:00 GMT

Possibly like most of the regulars, I have the community page set to 'unread posts' but especially at this crazy time of year there are pages of unread posts that I have no interest in (sure you all know which ones!:smileyhappy:)

We have a much used 'mark all posts as read' button but is there any possibility for marking each thread as'read' independently?

It's annoying having to open each thread and as soon as it's refreshed there are countless more replies.

I have no problem with that at all but I would like to see something introduced to short-cut these threads from a personal point of view.

What do you think Leonard, any hope or is it beyond the scope of Lithium?

Re: Unread Posts

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:25:46 GMT

Hi jonsie,

Interesting thought. I don't know if it's an Admin feature, but I have the functionality "turn on batch processing". That works for marking threads as read/unread, but it's not very effective from my point of view.

Have you tried working with board subscriptions yet? I'm planning to make some slight changes to the forum next week, adding a couple of widgets. At the bottom it will also display your favourites, so perhaps that's a solution?

Re: Unread Posts

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:27:35 GMT

Or perhaps have an "Ignore this thread" option in the Topic Options menu which would then hide it forever ?

Re: Unread Posts

perksie — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:30:17 GMT

I really feel something is needed, I'm sure we're missing posts because of this.

A Favourites button might do it.

Re: Unread Posts

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:36:15 GMT

Let's check out how that subscribing works next week. The changes should be live on Wednesday morning. Might well be the solution

This is what it looks like (logged in as normal user):
http://grab.by/gkZW
http://grab.by/gl02

Re: Unread Posts

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:12:16 GMT

Sorry for the double posting... We'll also include a link with unanswered threads:
http://grab.by/gl8A

Which will link to:
http://grab.by/gl8E

That should help as well

Re: Unread Posts

jonsie — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:10:38 GMT

Anything that will make things a little easier thanks Leonard. There are times when I just can't face trawling through the chaos and so just mark all posts as read but you come back after a few minutes and there pages of repeated posts.

On the old forum you could just click on the last post in a thread and that marked the thread as read.

Re: Unread Posts

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:51:15 GMT

No prob. I use the 'unread posts' all the time as well. Lithium seems to check if you have read all posts rather than the last one. So, if you haven't viewed new posts on a particular page, it will still display the thread as new.

You could display loads of posts per page (say 200). If you then also adjust the preferences to take you to the first unread posts when you visit to a topic, it should function very similarly to phpBB software (which I guess you're referring to).

Clicking on the thread should mark at least 200 posts as unread. If you've missed more than 200 posts, you need to browse to the next page.

Perhaps that helps