How to hide threads after you've read them

[theBaron]

Hi, all!

Is there a way to configure your preferences so that threads you've read in the New Posts area are removed from that list, until such time as a new post is made and you select New Posts again?

I looked in my control panel, but I didn't find anything like a flag to set for that, and I looked in the FAQs for this info, but didn't find it.

Other forums I belong to, using the same webpage software as PF, have enabled that functionality, so it might also be that the webmaster hasn't enabled it here. But if it is enabled, I'd like to be able to use it.

Thanks in advance!

Brad

 

[Guy]

I always go to "Quick Links" at the top of the page and click on this. Afterwards I click on "Mark all Forums Read". Works for me.

 

[theBaron]

Hi, Gary, thanks for the response, but unfortunately, that's not quite what I'm looking for. That marks everything read, including posts that I have yet to read.

I'm finding that a new post remains in the New Post list after I've read it, albeit with a title now in normal text, rather than bold.

I'm looking to see if we have the functionality to hide each thread as we read them. So, if there were 10 new posts returned by the New Posts menu choice, as I read each one and return to New Posts, I'm looking to see 9, then 8, and so on.

I suspect now that it might be a configuration setting for the site.

 

[gordy]

The thread counters rely on cookies, do you have cookies disabled ?

 

[theBaron]

Hi, Gordy, thanks, cookies are enabled.

An example of another forum that uses what appears to be the same software to build its page is the Treefrog Toy Soldier forum:

http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/forum/

I'm not sure if you could access it, without being registered, but if you can, you can see what I mean. The New Posts list there has the functionality to hide a thread, once a user has read the latest post, so the New Post query doesn't return that thread again for that user, until another new post is added.

As a user cycles through running the New Posts query and reading each new post, in theory, he could pare the list down to a point at which there are no new posts to return.

It's not a problem, but if the functionality is enabled here, I'd like to make use of it.

Thanks!
Brad