O.K.
I'm back to gripe more about the software this board is running on. If I have missed the answer, Somebody PLEASE let me know what it is!!
The problem that I am having is that I am having A really hard time keeping track of READ messages on this board!!!! If I open the site and there are a number of messages, UNLESS I read EVERY ONE in one session, I am unable to IDENTIFY the messages the went unread when I come back again, because every time I close the browser and then come back to read them later, all messages have been "marked" as read. This is INCREDIBLY frustrating
I submit to the "powers that be" that if this software is not intelligent enough to to keep track of read vs. unread messages BETWEEN SESSIONS, then the software SHOULD BE REPLACED!
As an example of a software that IS CAPABLE of doing this, look at boards that are run on "UBB.classic" software by Infopop.
This is a very easy to navigate web-board software, and in addition to keeping track of read vs. unread messages in a thread, it also lets you "jump" to unread messages in any thread, so if a particular thread has a large number of post, you DON"T have to scroll through every single post to get to the new post (this is another thing that is REALLY annoying about this board software - I find myself having to repeadly scroll through post I've already read.
If any one is interested in seeing a board that is running the INFOPOP software, you can go to Thom Hartman''s board here:
http://www.thomhartman.com/cgi-bin/ubbc ... matebb.cgi
(You'll have to register, but is is a quick process, and you won't be spamed by doing this)
Be forewarned though:
Thom is a Progressive/Liberal talk show host (and my political "mentor"), so some of you with "conservative" leanings might be offended (or heck you might even be enlightened and give up your "radical Right" ways ).
Anyway, bottom line is that the current software that this forum is now running on is just very frustrating to use - and there are better alternatives out there (IMHO).
I'm back to gripe more about the software this board is running on. If I have missed the answer, Somebody PLEASE let me know what it is!!
The problem that I am having is that I am having A really hard time keeping track of READ messages on this board!!!! If I open the site and there are a number of messages, UNLESS I read EVERY ONE in one session, I am unable to IDENTIFY the messages the went unread when I come back again, because every time I close the browser and then come back to read them later, all messages have been "marked" as read. This is INCREDIBLY frustrating
I submit to the "powers that be" that if this software is not intelligent enough to to keep track of read vs. unread messages BETWEEN SESSIONS, then the software SHOULD BE REPLACED!
As an example of a software that IS CAPABLE of doing this, look at boards that are run on "UBB.classic" software by Infopop.
This is a very easy to navigate web-board software, and in addition to keeping track of read vs. unread messages in a thread, it also lets you "jump" to unread messages in any thread, so if a particular thread has a large number of post, you DON"T have to scroll through every single post to get to the new post (this is another thing that is REALLY annoying about this board software - I find myself having to repeadly scroll through post I've already read.
If any one is interested in seeing a board that is running the INFOPOP software, you can go to Thom Hartman''s board here:
http://www.thomhartman.com/cgi-bin/ubbc ... matebb.cgi
(You'll have to register, but is is a quick process, and you won't be spamed by doing this)
Be forewarned though:
Thom is a Progressive/Liberal talk show host (and my political "mentor"), so some of you with "conservative" leanings might be offended (or heck you might even be enlightened and give up your "radical Right" ways ).
Anyway, bottom line is that the current software that this forum is now running on is just very frustrating to use - and there are better alternatives out there (IMHO).