Forum "New Posts" Change
 

At the suggestion of one of our members, I made a small change to the forum settings. A lot of us are busy and don't have time to read all of the new posts in a single session, but when we leave the site for a few hours and come back, the posts we haven't gotten to no longer show up as unread posts/threads.

The change I made will leave the threads unread until you decide to read them. Initially, you'll notice a lot of threads under the new posts page that have not been updated since your last visit but still contain unread posts. Those are just threads that don't have the new flag indicating that you've read them, even if you already have. As you read the various threads, that list should shrink and/or go away. If this feature proves to be useful to everybody, we'll keep it, so if you feel strongly one way or the other, please leave feedback in this thread.

Thanks!

Fantastic!
 

This is great! Thank you very much.

This way, when I spend too much time chewing on the meat in one of the deeper post, the new posts do not get reset. Also, like you said, I can drop in for a few minutes and then come back later when I have more time and finish reading the new posts. Great!

Thanks again for all you do here bambam.

Mark Forums Read
 

BTW, once you are sure that you have read all the new posts, you can click on "Mark Forums Read" under "Quick Links" and it will show all posts as read (no new posts).

Well done Ben, now we can all see what's going on.

Good Idea
 

Thanks Bambam!

Positive improvement ! Good work.

A helpful and useful admin on an internet site?!!!!

You guys really are the best :salut:

Great improvement well done!

I like it Ben! Great idea!
Alex

Another reason this is the BEST TGM site.

Good find!

Glad you guys like this change, because I'm finding it very helpful!

whole page
 

Ben,how do I get complete page.thanks

Workin' on it
 

I'm only seeing that problem in Google's "Chrome" browser. What browser are you using?

Same here bambam. IE 7.00XXXXX.

Things are a little out of sorts.

Ben, you're doing a great job.

It's beginning to display beautifully. I like the colors and clean look.

I miss the banner photo and I miss not seeing the Forum Moderator.

Thanks, Daryl. Don't forget to check out the new home page; lots of great photos there. We've also added a bunch of photos to our picture gallery.

This was a major upgrade to the site, so I'm expecting a few hiccups along the way. I hope you're at least seeing the full width of the page in IE now. That problem seems to be resolved for me.

Forum moderator is going back in, but I need to find a way to make it take up a little less space. It was grabbing a large chunk of horizontal real estate.

I'm very impressed with the home page. Outstanding work on your part. And you were also right about the photos and vids, they are sooo much better. They weren't bad before, but this is an upgrade.

Although I love the new look, the "New posts" link may not be working.

It was great in the past and I hope it continues

I can't live without the "New Posts" link, but it's working for me. What are you seeing?

Hey Bambam,

I just get the "following threads haven't been updated since your last visit" rather than the "threads with new posts"

ps, using firefox