View Threads with Unread Posts after Upgrade?

[Dave EV]

Before the upgrade, we used to be able to do the following:

1. View Watched Threads with Unread Posts
2. View Watched Forums with Unread Posts
3. View All Threads with Unread Posts

This was extremely helpful if you accidentally deleted your email notifications, or something else. #3 is useful if you're looking for some other unread content.

Also, it's no longer easy to see what threads have unread content in general.

Aside from those issues, the forum update looks a bit slicker than before, and seems pretty snappy in general.

Edit: Looks like the thread title is BOLD if there are unread posts. Not that obvious...

 

[HankLloydRight]

Yes please!

 

[danny]

Edit: Looks like the thread title is BOLD if there are unread posts. Not that obvious...

Yeah, that is the way one determines if the thread has new posts. Perhaps there is a way for us to make it more obvious.

 

[MP3Mike]

Edit: Looks like the thread title is BOLD if there are unread posts. Not that obvious...

Yeah, that is the way one determines if the thread has new posts. Perhaps there is a way for us to make it more obvious.

While the unread ones are bold, I can barely see a difference between bold and not bold, at least in the dark theme. And the unread/bold items could be spread over many pages, so if you can bring back the unread watched threads filter it would be very helpful.

 

[HankLloydRight]

I've updated my Tampermonkey script to hide all read threads in the "Watched Threads" view.

You can install it from here once you have the Tampermonkey browser extension installed:

About | TMC hide read threads and always go to Last Unread Post | Userscripts | OpenUserJS

For the latest TMC Update 2021, hides all "read" threads in the Watched Threads view. Opens all threads in a new tab. Also for any thread over 30 days old, clicking the thread title link reverts to the first post in the thread instead of 'last unread post'. But we never know which threads...

openuserjs.org

This helps the situation only on the desktop browser, but the lack of "Watched Unread Threads" is still a problem on mobile (my primary access method).

 

[BrianZ]

Would love to see number of posts remaining at the end of a page. This is really useful for large threads to see how behind I've gotten

 

[4SUPER9]

Yes please. Need to hide threads with no new posts, and see only threads with new posts. That was very nice. Hopefully, this can be turned on.

 

[JRP3]

Yeah I'd like to be able to just see Unread Watched Threads again if possible.

 

[Dave EV]

OK, I noticed something new - when you click on "New Posts", there are filters, and there's a "Show only: Unread" filter selected by default.

So that is good and configurable filters are nice there.

And I see that you can add a filter so that you can filter new posts for both unread and watched content.

Now I just need a way to directly link to a new search that matches that...

 

[danny]

Now I just need a way to directly link to a new search that matches that...

Sorry, can you explain you mean by this? Do you mean a keyword search that only shows you unread watched threads?


Also, please note that you can save your filters here:

 

[HankLloydRight]

OK, I noticed something new - when you click on "New Posts", there are filters, and there's a "Show only: Unread" filter selected by default.

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So that is good and configurable filters are nice there.

And I see that you can add a filter so that you can filter new posts for both unread and watched content.

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Now I just need a way to directly link to a new search that matches that...

Interesting. Your method shows all unread posts in watched forums.

We still can't do "Unread Watched Threads" like we could before.

In terms of other filters, the ones on the old TMC version were all useful at different times:
Unread Posts
New Posts
Threads with new posts
Watched Threads Unread
...etc.

 

[JRP3]

Interesting. Your method shows all unread posts in watched forums.

Yeah that's not helpful. Would be nice to have it as before, showing only Unread Watched threads, then having the option to click Show all Watched threads if you want to see more.

 

[Dave EV]

Sorry, can you explain you mean by this? Do you mean a keyword search that only shows you unread watched threads?


Also, please note that you can save your filters here:
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Thank you! I missed that checkbox, and it does appear that now while I don't have quite the same control as before (the ability to view unread watched threads independently from unread watched forums), for my purposes this is fine.

Interesting. Your method shows all unread posts in watched forums.

We still can't do "Unread Watched Threads" like we could before.

In terms of other filters, the ones on the old TMC version were all useful at different times:
Unread Posts
New Posts
Threads with new posts
Watched Threads Unread
...etc.

Hank, you do get the ability to show all unread posts in watched threads, as well as forums. Unfortunately, not one or the other as mentioned above.

I do agree that it would still be very helpful to have separate direct links to searched for "Watched threads with unread posts" and "Watched forums with unread posts". Could probably figure out a way to create bookmarks for this, but haven't had a chance to dig into it yet.

 

[danny]

Thank you! I missed that checkbox, and it does appear that now while I don't have quite the same control as before (the ability to view unread watched threads independently from unread watched forums), for my purposes this is fine.

Thanks, that is helpful to know.

 

[danny]

Interesting. Your method shows all unread posts in watched forums.

We still can't do "Unread Watched Threads" like we could before.

Thanks for confirming how it works. We will look into this.

 

[lUtriaNt]

i use the dark theme and the unread posts "bold" is not that noticeable. Would like this to be more noticable if possible.

 

[danny]

i use the dark theme and the unread posts "bold" is not that noticeable. Would like this to be more noticable if possible.

Thanks. Will look into it.

 

[hitchhiker]

What software is this? I bet we could find a few themes that people will find more readable.

 

[JRP3]

Thanks. Will look into it.

I'd say the same is true of the light theme. Harder to distinguish between read and unread threads compared to the old forum, font differentiation should be greater.

 

[danny]

I'd say the same is true of the light theme. Harder to distinguish between read and unread threads compared to the old forum, font differentiation should be greater.

We're gonna add the red dot in, like we had on the old forums.