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(@jim-frame)
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I find the new link color scheme confusing.?ÿ Using the Verizon Mifi thread as an example, here's what I see before reading it:

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If I click on the title and read all the posts under the thread and then click on Recent Posts, the thread title link has changed color, but the two newest post links are unchanged:

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If I click on the next-to-last post link and then click on Recent Posts, the post title I clicked on has changed color, but the newest post link is unchanged:

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The net effect is that once I've read a thread the thread title link goes gray (the read color), but I have no way of telling from the link color whether or not I've been exposed to all the posts in the thread.?ÿ I think it would be better if the title link were to revert to orange (the unread color) whenever a post is made after I've read even part of the thread.?ÿ Merely graying the individual post links doesn't really do much, as most of the time I'll read multiple posts without ever clicking on an individual post link.

Thanks!

 
Posted : December 31, 2018 6:19 pm
(@jim-frame)
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That's interesting:?ÿ I uploaded and inserted 3 images in the post above, but none appear.?ÿ Another glitch?

Edit:?ÿ Only on my end, it seems.?ÿ When I tried another browser I see them.?ÿ Cookies/cache again, I suppose.

 
Posted : December 31, 2018 6:20 pm
(@jim-frame)
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I initially posted today that I couldn't make any sense of the color scheme, but I guess I've figured it out:?ÿ once I click on a link it goes gray.?ÿ Unfortunately, that doesn't tell me anything about the orange links -- maybe I've already read them, maybe not, I only know that I didn't click on them, which isn't very helpful.

 
Posted : January 7, 2019 8:46 am
(@dgm-pls)
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the link you click on turns grey when you "read" that link (whether header or a post link).?ÿ The lighter orange header is unchanged from a prior read and the bold header has new posts from your prior read or unread in its entirety.?ÿ

 
Posted : January 7, 2019 8:57 am
(@dgm-pls)
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the grey is only active in your current browser session.?ÿ When you close the browser and open it back up the greys revert to light orange (read).

 
Posted : January 7, 2019 9:02 am