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[daal]

I feel like re-dredging this thread. The problem I keep encountering, is that I look at a thread briefly, and later when I've thought about it and want to respond, I have to dig around in our meanwhile 38 sub-forums to find it again because it is no longer listed in new posts. It's also for some reason practically never in active topics. Which is why I'd prefer a "recently updated" to "active topics." Does anyone use the "active topics" list? Seems useless to me.

[Bonobo]

The way I do it is thus:

I always have “unread posts” open in a tab, then …

• reload once in a while (which is several times a day )
  
• open topics interesting to me in the background, using the little orange icon to the left (first unread post)
  
• mark forums read
  
• click “unread posts”
  
• go on reading the pre-loaded background tabs, close, return to unread posts
  
• rinse, repeat

Only problem is that lifein19*19 sometimes seems to “forget” me even though I have it set to remember me …

[xed_over]

I feel like re-dredging this thread. The problem I keep encountering, is that I look at a thread briefly, and later when I've thought about it and want to respond, I have to dig around in our meanwhile 38 sub-forums to find it again because it is no longer listed in new posts. It's also for some reason practically never in active topics. Which is why I'd prefer a "recently updated" to "active topics." Does anyone use the "active topics" list? Seems useless to me.

I have the same problem... what I've started to do (now that I have a smart phone) is read posts while not logged in, on my phone. that gives me time to think about how I want to respond later when I'm in front of an actual keyboard and logged in as me and the posts are still marked new.

not very effective, but somewhat works.

what would be even better is the ability to mark a read thread as unread again.