I was thinking it would be better to have a view new posts button appear on the user cp page as well as at the home page.

I'm always flicking back and forth replying to threads I'm already involved in, and checking back to the new posts page, to see if I'm missing something interesting.

Just a though

it might be useful, but it's really not relevant to the user control panel...

personally i have a tab permanently on a view new posts search and just refresh it each time i want an update.

Yeah just bookmark the link, before it refreshed/redirects to a search result listing. It's the only way to browse vB boards.

Maybe I'll start a new approach, but here's how I browse the board:

Click on the bookmark to the forums, head to Site Questions to see any updates, then move to Newbie, Software, Linux General, Networking, Hardware, Distros, Security, Programming, General.
Usually in that order.



Cool

Okay, I wanna play, too. If I'm really looking to hit the boards hard, it's basically like acid_kewpie and Proud - I load up LQ, check the front page announcements, and then move over to 'new posts' - then I go on through. If I'm going light, I just fire up my mail client and click through to the posts just so I can check on whether anyone's saying, "digiot, you idiot, that last thing you told me was wrong!" because the email notification just signals replies to threads I've posted on or subscribed to. And sometimes I start that way and then hit new replies anyway.

About the only time I use the cp for message checking (or the forum view like MasterC) is when my mail's glitched or I'm viewing new posts and get distracted and the board resets. I mostly use the cp to change my distros field to whatever distro is playing second banana to Slack at the moment.

I added "View New Posts" to the Subscribed Threads table in the UserCP.

--jeremy

Cool, thats made things a bit difrence for me, Thanks!