By tomski777 on

Finding new posts within a long thread is a difficult thing on the drupal.org forums, but how about placing a "*" (or some other identifier) in front of the new post text i.e. "*new" it would then be much easier to do a local search (apple F on a mac not sure for a PC) to find new posts....

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drupalguest commented

If I'm not mistaken, when you click on recent posts, it should list posts that you have not read. It also marks the new one.

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tomski777 commented

If you look at a thread with a large number of "nested replies" its very difficult to find the new comments.... Take this thread for instance:
http://drupal.org/node/14563
which I hadn't looked for a while - there were new comments all over the place & it takes ages to try & track them down.

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drupalguest commented

That's one reason why a bridge solution (non intergrated) to forums such as phpbb/smf/etc. should be made available so we all have a CHOICE and not stuck using something that may not be as feature rich.

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cel4145 commented

I've wondered why we have the comment viewing options turned off? That allows a user to reorganize the posts with the most recent first. Here's an example post on one of my sites which uses it.

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tomski777 commented

you lose the context of the post, which I find really useful... Another solution could be a mini menu with anchor point links: #new1, #new2, #new3 etc. you could then navigate to the new posts.

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