Clearing of 'unread threads'...
 

Would it be possible to make it so that your 'new threads' counter is not cleared automatically when you log off? I'll give you an example of why I sometimes find it annoying:

I am currently studying for CCNA at my local college (I've put the teaching thing on hold for a few years...). Today, I went in and had a browse around the forums and read some new posts, but then the lesson started, so I logged off - note, I didn't 'mark all forums as read'. Later on (just a few minutes ago), it was 'breaktime' so I logged on again to have another poke around. Previously there were 1,500+ unread threads. Now there are <100! And later tonight, when I get home and go online (where I am signed in to LQ automagically) this will change again.

So, what am I asking? Is it possible to make it - possibly as an option on the User's Settings page - so that the unread threads count is only changed when the user clicks on 'mark all forums as read'? This way, it wouldn't matter if you logged in and out several times a day (at different PCs, even), your unread threads would remain the same until you specifically clicked to clear them.

Does this make sense, or am I being a little vague?

Cheers.

I would like to see this too. Jeremy does have it on the ToDo list and I'm sure it will be available in the future.

That's probably better than what I requested :D

Mine was this elaborate, in depth, change to the user cp where one could change their timeout, and it was dynamic for whether they wanted short timeouts (such as when I'm on a T3 with no interruptions) or very long, in similar instances as yours above. he he he, guess mine was extreme overkill ;)

Anyway, yeah, I think most of us who are more than average Addicts have a desire for a feature like that ;)

Cool

We do have something similar to this on the TODO, but have no ETA at this time. The feature will allow you to pick an arbitrary time and get all new posts since that time.

--jeremy

I've added the ability to grab posts from the last 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 16 hour time increments. If you would like more let me know.

--jeremy

in addition...
 

would it ever be possible for users to have the ability to either delete an entire thread that they authored, or their replies?

No, deleting threads/posts will not be an option.

--jeremy

I had missed this thread...and I have the same problem.

I'll have to try the new functionality...that's awesome :)

Why not?

Because this is meant to be a permanent, searchable database of questions and answers. If we can delete old threads, what's to stop old useful threads being lost?

Cheers Jeremy. Now, this may sound like I'm being stupid or just not looking, but how do you use this? When I click on 'new posts' I just get sent to the usual page with no (apparent) extra options. This does sound like it'd be useful - I just haven't figured it out yet :D

Cheers buddy.

You can access this feature by clicking the UserCP button.

--jeremy