# New vB idea - thoughts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-vb-idea-thoughts/34065
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**Created:** [September 21, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-vb-idea-thoughts/34065 "2000-09-21T23:02:59Z")
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### Author:  [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-vb-idea-thoughts/34065/1 "2000-09-21T23:02:59Z")
Just had an idea for a new vB feature, wondering what you folks think. I think I might suggest it to them at their MB.
The idea is basically that it would be nice to be able to “bookmark” particular threads (without actually having to clutter up IE favorites / Netscape bookmarks / etc.).
Then you could log on, and go to a page where you could see the threads you’ve bookmarked, sorta like your own forum.
This’d come in handy both for A) keeping track of threads you are active in, and B) keeping track of those threads (like the ones that show how to do various formatting tricks) that you frequently refer back to for information.
Anybody else find this useful?
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### Author:  [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-vb-idea-thoughts/34065/2 "2000-09-22T02:31:16Z")
Nice idea. Sadly, we already appear to have too many users, this would overload the servers even MORE.
–Tim
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2000, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-vb-idea-thoughts/34065/3 "2000-09-22T03:11:31Z")
Homer’s right. We’re having slowness problems as it is, and servers are very limited beasts. Sorry, that sounds like a great idea, but we only have so much capacity.
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### Author:  [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-vb-idea-thoughts/34065/4 "2000-09-22T18:21:37Z")
Hmmmm. Well, I don’t use the email-me-if-someone-posts feature, because for active threads you get far to many emails, so I usually end up using the search engine to look for threads. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
I’m not entirely convinced that a feature dedicated to tracking threads (all you’d really need is a table with userid and thread number) might not be better overall efficiency than forcing people to use that search engine to find threads…
I went and suggested it anyway. 😛
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-vb-idea-thoughts/34065/5 "2000-09-23T02:16:00Z")
Depending on how often you read the board, the easiest way (for you and the server) is just to page through the forum listing.