Most Efficient Way to Check for Responses

[Ace2317]

What's your quickest and easiest way to check your threads for responses or check forums you've responded to for newer responses? Most times I use the "New Posts" tab, but you may miss something that way if you're offline for a few days.

 

[Craftydan]

If youre reading while logged in, then go offline for a few days, you'll be surprised how many "new posts" are waiting for you. It does keep track.

Other options:

- if you subscribe to posts you want to watch, you can pick "subscribed threads" under "quick links"
- click the "advanced search" and under "additional options" change the date to "your last visit" and click OK.

Bound to be more, but those are the easiest I know about.

 

[IFlyRCstuff]

I sunscride to special threads, abd check new posts often.

 

[joshuabardwell]

When I go to this URL, I see all subscribed threads that have new responses since I last read the thread.

http://forum.flitetest.com/usercp.php

Make sure your control panel is set to auto-subscribe to threads when you respond, if that's not the default. I can't remember if that's the default or not.

 

[Balu]

I've always wondered how the "new posts" work. It doesn't seem to track every thread you've visited. Sometimes I've missed a post or two from a thread and have to scroll up.

I don't really like the "New posts" button, because it doesn't categorize postings and I like to see them a little ordered.

Instead I wrote a Greasemonkey script a few days ago that is started when I visit http://forum.flitetest.com, scans the page for links to sections with new posts and opens each link in a new tab. Subsections get opened similar this way.

Then I just go through those tabs and look at the thread titles to see what's interesting and open these in new tabs again, marking sections read and closing the section tab after that.

This way I get a really good overview of what's going on.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        FliteTest Forum
// @namespace   Balu
// @include     http://forum.flitetest.com/*
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// @require http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.2.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

console.log('Running FT script');
var openedTabs = new Array();
var popupsBlocked = false;

$('img[src="images/statusicon/category_forum_new.png"], img[src="images/statusicon/forum_new-48.png"]').each(function(){
  $(this).parent().find('h2.forumtitle a').each(function(i, l){
    if (popupsBlocked) return;
    if (openedTabs[l]==true) {console.log(l + 'already opened.'); return;}

    console.log("Opening " + l + '.');
    var win = window.open(l, '_blank');
    openedTabs[l] = true;
    window.focus();
    if (!win) {
      alert('Please allow popups for this site');
      popupsBlocked = true;
    }
  });
});
  
//$('.forumbit_nopost.new.L2 h2.forumtitle a.forumtitle').each(function(i, l){})
//$('.forumbit_post.new.L2 h2 a').each(function(i, l){})

It's my first time playing with Greasemonkey and just a few days old, so it might not work all the time like you've expect it to do... ;-)

 

[joshuabardwell]

I believe that "New Posts" is every thread that has a new comment since you last left, regardless of whether you previously viewed or participated in the thread.