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?

Yeah, I'm getting the "not every 0 count topic at the bottom of the Message Center" thing sometimes. It maybe my browser (Opera) not refreshing completely... I will test this theory out in another browser.

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.

Jesse got it exactly right. Sorry if my post wasn't very clear. I realise that people are asked to avoid spoilery taglines, but they still quote (non-spoilery) lines from the shows, which I can totally understand, 'cos they're usually really good lines. But when I watch the show weeks after you guys, every other good line is an, "oh, that was so-and-so's tag! And that was such-and-such's!" Which tends to rip you right out of the show besides killing much of the Good Line Enjoyment.

Last year I just got around the whole issue by turning off the taglines.

Maybe if, instead of threads saying "67 messages, 0 new" or whatever, it could just say "67 messages" if there aren't any new ones, the way it was at WX (and, I think, TT). That way, to find threads with new posts, you can just quickly read through the thread list for the word "new."

Yeah, I'm getting the "not every 0 count topic at the bottom of the Message Center" thing sometimes. It maybe my browser (Opera) not refreshing completely... I will test this theory out in another browser.

No -- it just means that those posts are unread, but older than read posts in other threads.