I do like Angus' second suggestion, and was going to make it myself, if it were easy to implement; but, er,

Connie, you do realise that threads with new messages are towards the top in Message Centre (sorry, I physically can't spell it the American way), right?

that's not in my experience-- it seemed to be that the last one I looked at was at the top. So I could have a 0 New above one with 16 New.

But the Read New button fixes all that. Especially cool (I think) how it doesn't have to take you to the next one in *that* thread-- because I always have three or four windows open, reading more than one thread at once.

It's so shiny!

I had a brainstorm this morning, I don't know if others would find it useful or not. When I click on Message Center, I'd find it really useful if the threads where the message count wasn't "0" were presented with a different color for their title, or message count. So that my bleary eyes, running down the page trying to figure out which thread gets priority would be drawn to the ones that are ripe for plucking.

I was going to suggest this, too, but I was thinking of it more for Beep Me and Press, because they don't ever show up at the top of the message center, and it would be nice to have a visual clue that would draw your vision to them.

Hey, question about read new: when you click on it, how does it decide which thread among those with new messages to bring up?

Most recent post. So the top of the message centre/home page is the thread with the most recent post, whether you've read it or not. Same with "read new".

Most recent post. So the top of the message centre/home page is the thread with the most recent post, whether you've read it or not. Same with "read new".

That's what I thought. I'm having trouble with that. I'm trying to use it to catch up with all the posts I missed last night, but every other time I click it it's putting me back in Natter. Older threads miss out completely; I've started going off the home page again.

Would it make sense to have it either go with the oldest non-zero thread, or to go through them all in a set order? Or is there another reason to do the most recent?

The reasons for most recent are lost in the mists of time. I do remember it being discussed, but I'll be damned if I recall justification either way.

You need to learn to read faster, dude.

Harumph. I'm reading plenty fast. We wanted a board kicked up to turbo, an' that's what we got.

Fiona, when you register or go to your profile page to change a tagline, it says to avoid spoilery taglines for the sake of UnAmericans.

I don't think that's what Fiona's getting at, actually. If someone's tagline is "Here we are now, entertain us," that's not spoilery, per se, but when it airs, she's thinking, "Hey! That was a tagline..who's was it? Huh..." rather than just thinking about watching the show.

If I read Fiona's post right.

Which, unless I have a breakthrough, will have to wait until jon comes back.

Jon will be at my house tonight. You want I should tell him to check in?

Could you ask him to e-mail me the test password?