I guess the title doesn’t make much sense, so let me explain what I mean…
BTW, this isn’t something particularly new, but I just finally decided to ask about it.
I generally peruse the boards 2 or 3 times a day, and really love the fact that I can easily go to the first unread post since my last visit. This works well UNTIL I spend more than a few minutes on a page, as in reading every single post carefully, or if I get a phone call or am otherwise distracted from the boards.
The next time I click to a new page (generally using the back button on IE 6), my “you last visited” time changes to what appears to be the previous time I clicked on a page. This now resets the markers for all other forums as if I had already read the posts through that time. Since I suck at explanations, here it is in pictures:
Visited the boards at 12:15PM; stayed on until let’s say 1PM, then revisted the boards again at 7PM. I was reading the boards and clicking away, and then at 7:25 I got a phone call and stopped reading the boards until 7:45. I was reading a post at the time. When I used the back button after I got off the phone, now the time last visited shows sometime after 7PM (25 after, 45 after, I honestly don’t know, this is an example and I writing this without visiting the boards so this doesn’t happen to me tonight!), and when I go to any other forum on this visit, nothing before that 7PM time will show as new, instead of either 12:15PM or 1PM, you pick.
Anyway, I can’t imagine I’m the only one this happens to, so I figured I’d put this out there to see how folks get around this.
OTOH, I could just be completely out of my mind. Then again, those two events may not be mutually exclusive anyway
Thanks for listening!
PS --Would you believe this is what I’m using for my very first OP after all this time?
PPS – Since the board keeps timing out on me, maybe this is a hint I shouldn’t post this at all… tough ;D