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Title: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: Ragnorock on Mon, 12 November 2012, 23:31:03

I know we used to use bold/normal font... which worked great. The tiny little orange icon isn't cutting it imo. Its quite a pain to tell which ones are unread when they all look unread. >.>


Yes? No? Dave go get back to work?

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: esoomenona on Tue, 13 November 2012, 00:11:47

I asked for this in the feature request thread.

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: rknize on Tue, 13 November 2012, 11:07:26

It's been bugging me too.  SMF uses bold for stickies, but I still am not used to this.  Bold is probably better served as an unread cue.

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: rknize on Wed, 14 November 2012, 13:24:50

OK, it's done.

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 14 November 2012, 13:25:39

Oh, now that's much nicer. Thanks a lot, Russ!

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: alaricljs on Wed, 14 November 2012, 13:26:18

Just for the sake of argument, the "Unread" page isn't ;)  (Nostalgia theme)

edit: not that I think it needs to be... seeing as how the whole page should be only unread topics.

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: rknize on Wed, 14 November 2012, 13:30:10

Ah, yes.  That would be a different php script.  I'll fix that, too...though it's a little redundant there and also in spy.  But for the sake of consistency it makes sense.

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: rknize on Wed, 14 November 2012, 13:46:21

OK, also done.

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 14 November 2012, 13:47:45

What is the difference between Unread and Spy?

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: rknize on Wed, 14 November 2012, 13:56:56

Unread/new/etc is part of the SMF template.  Spy is buggy add-on.  mkawa has fixed it up to get it working the way it does.  Adding bold to it shouldn't be a problem.

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: SmallFry on Wed, 14 November 2012, 13:59:59

The Spy is supposed to be constantly updating, it works alright...could use some tweaking. The unread is not updating in live time.

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: The_Beast on Wed, 14 November 2012, 14:01:31

I like "unread" a lot more since almost all forums have it. Spy is weird

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: longweight on Wed, 14 November 2012, 14:05:28

I love the spy feature, I wish that more sites had it!

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 14 November 2012, 14:06:11

I don't use either. I constatly reload the front page, pop into a sub marked unread and check which threads have something new, then repeat...

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 14 November 2012, 15:14:38

Quote from: esoomenona on Wed, 14 November 2012, 14:06:11

I don't use either. I constatly reload the front page, pop into a sub marked unread and check which threads have something new, then repeat...

I do this, mainly due to inertia.  It is a technique that works on most forums.

Maybe I should check out the spy ...

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 14 November 2012, 15:35:57

^I tried it, but it just didn't feel the same, so went back to doing what is pretty much second nature. My mouse is programmed to do this so well. F5 on one button, Ctrl+W on another, middle click. I fly through pages.

Title: Re: More noticeable Read/Unread method
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 14 November 2012, 16:04:43

Yeah, same here.  Been donig it since I joined pre-r00tw0rm.