Reading recent activity on this site

[districtgrandmaste]

Hi - Really this is addressed to Andy but I can't find the way to get to him other than starting a new thread.

I've been dropping in and reading the 'last 20 threads' most days - thinking that gave me a good oversight about recent activity.

Yesterday morning I made a posting and expected to see it, or some contribution this morning when I visited. To my surprise there was nothing in the last 20 posts but when I found the thread (another story itself!) I found four or five further contributions had been made.

What I suggest is that a member should be able to look at postings since the last time he/she visited - or from a time of their choice.

Any chance of this(or can it be done now if I knew how?)

[lancelot]

Hi D.G.M.
If I am following your thinking, you can see your last number of posts if you go into your ''BIO''.you may also find ''your'' thread the same way, if I am correct.
Something similarly strange happened one of my posts a short while ago.
All the best ,
John.

[Deleted]

On my PC a blue 'new' icon is shown against each thread that has had postings since I last looked at it. If you don't see this icon, you have probably disallowed 'cookies' in your browser options, or some such technicality.

Regards, John

[Tel]

'Last 20 posts' you mean DGM - with 23 catagories, divided into who-knows-how-many threads, it doesn't take long for 20 posts to crank over. Rely, instead, on the blue dot ;D

Andy has been away in Darkest Africa - don't know if he's back yet.

[houstonceng]

It's a lie. I'm still in Kent.

Andy

Oh ! You meant t'other one !

[paul]

As this forum is hosted on Proboards the functionality is rather limited - now if it was phpbb based you'd have topic subscription (to watch a particular topic) and a myriad of other goodies!

[districtgrandmaste]

Thanks for these messages - I've found my 'BIO' and can see it would be helpful.

With a board this size it is easy I see it's easy to miss things unless you 'chip-in' something!

I'm a 'lurker' really!

Ps - Paul - out of interest what is phpbb?

[paul]

districtgrandmaste said:

Ps - Paul - out of interest what is phpbb?

It's one of the most widely used pieces of software to create 'forums' or 'community groups'.

www.phpbb.com/

[districtgrandmaste]

Thanks Paul - I've just had a look! One could 'lurk' all day - but I've got things to do!!