If I click on the thread title, it takes me to the first post in the thread. If I click on the number under the "New" column, it takes me to the first unread post. If I click on the time that the last poster made a post, it takes me to that last post.
If I click on the thread title, it takes me to the first post in the thread. If I click on the number under the "New" column, it takes me to the first unread post.
That's great info. I was wondering the same thing, and it would not have occurred to me to click on the number in the New column, which is a light gray and doesn't look "clickable." I wonder if it might be worth putting that line of informtaion on the first page (not that I'm eager to clutter the first page with anything that may require you to scroll more before seeing any useful content, since I'm usually on a small screen, so placement would have to be considered). Or if not that, maybe underline the New numbers, which always makes something look like it is clickable, even if the reason to click won't be as immediately obvious... it at least can kind of point people in the right direction, better than nothing.
It changed. Earlier, clicking on the thread title took me to the last post I'd read. Now it takes me to the first post. Grrr. Very odd that clicking the number does what it does, but thanks, Pupster!
If the number is zero, then there are zero new messages in that thread; You've already read them all. Counterintuitively, if you click on the number when it's zero, it takes you to the first post. Should it take you to the last post? I don't know.
I think other forum software does it more sensibly: Show a clickable icon ONLY if there are no unread posts.
It's working correctly for me now (clicking on the thread title takes me to the newest post). It definitely didn't, when I posted my first reply above.
Now it's NOT working correctly, at least for the HI GUYZ thread. Even after I posted on it, it shows the number of new posts as 44550. Also not working for "Hey mom, I'm a synthesist" ... but failing a bit differently. Seems to work on threads with low post counts. AHA: each time I click on a thread (or the "new post" count) the new post count goes down by at most 50. Clicking "next" a thread to advance to the next page also decrements the new post count by 50, but going to the last page does not affect it. OOPS! So I only need to hit that Next button 891 times for HAI GUYZ. Wheee!
Yup, there's a bug, for any threads with more new posts than your page count. (Maybe more bugs, but that's the one I reported.) Therefore, it won't work for HAI GUYZ.
I reported it in the feedback forum. Please chime in there, if this bugs you too!
Works fine for me for Hai Guyz. One thing I've done that maybe you haven't is that I've explicitly marked this forum as "read". That'll clear the "last read" counter for all threads for you, and it'll work for the big threads from that point forward.
At the top of the thread list is a drop-down labeled "Board Options", just to the right of the blue "New message" button. Just hit that and select "Mark all as read".
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