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Originally Posted by Pen N Popper  I'll chime in with my biggest (pet) peeve: In the old forums, I would look for unread posts by selecting the "view posts in last 24 hours." This would give me a long list of links to the last post made in each of the threads that met this criteria. In firefox, if I'd already visited that reply the link color would be slightly different. In the new forums, the links returned are to the first post in the thread, not the latest reply. This makes it difficult for me to determine if I've read the latest reply or not. My suggestion would be to reverse the link order displayed in the list: Link to last reply in the left column and have the small arrow next to the right (which would be next to the original poster's name) go to the first post. Does that make sense? |
Yes I understand what you mean. I'm not sure if I'll get to this, it's not as easy as it sounds and the same goes for Blackguy's suggestion which is somewhat related.
The complexity in such a task is this information is cached, meaning it is stored on the database and updated regularly rather then live fetches from the db every time a user sees the page. Adding another object like the last post title to the cache is not something I know how to do nor feel like digging into at the present time
We'll see if something easier and satisfactory can be accomplished.