UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Keeping track.

Over in the United Devices Ultimate Bulletin Board™ 6.04e, this question was posted. If there is a way, I will pass it on to the guys over there. Thanx.

"Maybe there's no way to do this and one needs to be made by the board design gurus.
But I thought: If anybody knows how to do this, it will be the real *Pro's* who help so much in this °Member-to-Member Support° folder. It seems surely! there's a way to do this. It's likely a situation encountered by many. But I have yet to figure it out. Is it just me?

Issue: How can I keep track of where I am in the reading of a long message thread -- when I leave it and come back later?

This has really been a frustration for me! It is great that when I revisit the message boards after a few hours or a day, the folders with new entries in them -- "new" since I last visited the boards -- show up in yellow and are moved again to the top of the list.

But when I open a folder I follow or I'm interested in -- especially if it has a lot of messages in it -- I never know what individual messages have been posted there since I last visited the boards. I have to go to the bottom of the thread and often read several -- some new and some old -- before I can figure out which are which, pick up the progression of the thread again, and satisfy myself I'm not missing anything.

Short of making myself notes on a piece of paper, how can I know where to go quickly in a thread, to pick up immediately with reading only those posts I have not yet seen?

I'll be quiet now and let the Pro's answer the question. Thanks in advance."

There is a hack that adds a link on top of the thread like this-"Jump to newest post". I have no idea what the hack is called though.

Actually, if you go here: http://forum.ud.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=6&t=003746 You'll find a better understanding of his question. He wants to keep track of the posts that he has read in each thread, as some threads are 2000 posts long and growing daily. He is looking for a way to open a thread in the middle of a page of a thread, or have the posts he has read hilighted so when he comes back, he can pick up where he left off reading, or some solution anyway. Thanks for your input.

[ 10-02-2001: Message edited by: caffeineyellow5 ]