The "what's new" button

[Hamish Gill]

Does anyone use this...
Click it and it will show you all the posts you haven't yet read...
Just incase you didn't know...

 

[Chris Dodkin]

First thing I go for!

 

[Glen Roberts]

First thing I go for!

Me too!

 

[Barry Keavney]

I don't use it; funnily enough, I click the "2 Unread Post/No unread posts" in the top right corner. Even if it say no unread post, it will bring up anything you haven't read! Don't know why I use that one?

 

[Hamish Gill]

glad people have worked that out ...
how do you find it works as a feature?

 

[Pete Askew]

I also use the unread posts. Even if it does report random numbers especially after you've read a few.

 

[Hamish Gill]

it reports unread posts since last visit i think

 

[Pete Askew]

Sort of! Often it says something like 23 unread posts, then you read one and go back to the top of the page and it say no unread posts even though there are several shown. Just a bug I guess and not really an issue. When there are some unread posts it always shows it at first and this only does something odd while you are working your way through them.

 

[Hamish Gill]

thats because its posts, not threads, so if you start with 23 unread posts you might open one thead that contains 20 unread posts and it wold then go down to 3 once you have read them

 

[Pete Askew]

Unfortunately that's not it. Tonight it said 43 unread and after I'd read 1 it said no unread posts, even though there a stack of threads / posts still to go! Just a bug i guess!!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I think it's a 'feature' to draw in the punters... LOL

 

[Tim Pindar]

It might be the difference between "unread ever" and "unread since last visit"...?