Reverse thread replies order?

[PvK]

I think he meant, it would just automatically take you to the first page with new Posts. It would calculate which page that is on. If there are 17 new Posts and you have it display 15 Posts per page, you have to do math to figure out you need to click on the 2nd to Last page number. Why not have the forum capable of doing this for you?

Well it could try, if someone wanted to take the time. However it seems likely to be wrong with some frequency. For example, the old logic for this was not checking each thread - just the Last time you visited, and somehow was different for each computer you used to visit the board, and certainly didn't know which Messages you'd actually read in a thread.

PvK

[Fyron]

Actually the forums already seem to be programmed to do that. Read and unread post status seems to be stored in the database. I am on a different computer than this morning, and the read/unread status seems to be accurate. This is the standard way to handle new post indicators with database backend forums, such as phpBB and this UBB Threads. The old Intel forum software stored read/unread in cookies, so different computers had different markers.