j-merrill wrote:
> I very much like the "if you log in, threads with messages you haven't 
> read are in bold" feature.  And the "sort threads by most recent 
> activity feature".
> 
> But it would be _much_ more useful if it used the info more, so that 
> when I go into a thread where I've not read (say) the last 3 out of 40 
> messages, instead of having to jump to the bottom and move up to see the 
> newest stuff

The forum creates an anchor called "new" on the first new post, so if 
you open the topic your browser should jump to the first post you 
haven't read yet. Doesn't this work for you?

> The option for a hierarchical display of sender / time / header, with 
> bold marking unread posts, showing only text for unread posts, and an 
> AJAX mechanism to get the text of any/all desired already-read posts -- 
> that would be truly excellent.

That should not be too hard to implement. Though other things are more 
important first.

> There were some discussions about people having a way to vote for 
> threads.  That, and a way to nominate answers for some kind of FAQ, 
> would be other great additions.  Are you planning either of those?

Voting is planned (actually it's already implemented in the model, only 
the view/controller stuff is missing).

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