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Henro
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"Henro,
I think the solution is to look at the line under the POST REPLY button to the upper left of the thread. There is a line under that button that reads:
View First Unread with a little check next to it.
Click that and you will go to the place you want to be."
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Thanks for the advice Mossroad!
Guess I have proven to myself that I am not the sharpest tool in the box, by far. I can't see what to do what you advised, or where to do it.
But even more so, I don't want to bother doing something like that every time I visit a thread.
I have developed a ritual now (hope I spelled that right). I visit TBN and click on a thread, then leave and click on the same thread again. If the second time I come back to the first post in the thread previously visited, I just throw in the towel an go back outside and do tractor stuff!
No complaints here...the new TBN is giving me even more seat time!
I know we all resist change...but I think the old setup was better. I don't have time to waste reading/sorting through posts I have already seen...and I don't have any desire to have to manually check a box on every thread that I might look at, to make sure that next time I visit it I will be taken to the first unread post.
Maybe it is just me...but I find this new setup to be a thorn in my side that I would not rather deal with...
Looks like I should also edit my sig line (if that is what you call it) as the smiles and red faces don't work anymore (or so it seems...)
"Henro,
I think the solution is to look at the line under the POST REPLY button to the upper left of the thread. There is a line under that button that reads:
View First Unread with a little check next to it.
Click that and you will go to the place you want to be."
===== End Quote =======
Thanks for the advice Mossroad!
Guess I have proven to myself that I am not the sharpest tool in the box, by far. I can't see what to do what you advised, or where to do it.
But even more so, I don't want to bother doing something like that every time I visit a thread.
I have developed a ritual now (hope I spelled that right). I visit TBN and click on a thread, then leave and click on the same thread again. If the second time I come back to the first post in the thread previously visited, I just throw in the towel an go back outside and do tractor stuff!
No complaints here...the new TBN is giving me even more seat time!
I know we all resist change...but I think the old setup was better. I don't have time to waste reading/sorting through posts I have already seen...and I don't have any desire to have to manually check a box on every thread that I might look at, to make sure that next time I visit it I will be taken to the first unread post.
Maybe it is just me...but I find this new setup to be a thorn in my side that I would not rather deal with...
Looks like I should also edit my sig line (if that is what you call it) as the smiles and red faces don't work anymore (or so it seems...)
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I thought the issue was repaired. Every time I come back to TBN now, I click on a thread and it now takes me to the first unread post in that thread since the last time I read it, just like it use to. 
I take it from your post that it is not working that way for you, still?
Check this screen shot attached... do you see what I've circled?
I take it from your post that it is not working that way for you, still?
Check this screen shot attached... do you see what I've circled?
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It is taking me a while to get the hang of the new software.....
Am I doing something wrong with the "Search" function. I was trying to find old threads about homemade cabs as I lost my "saved threads" in the software transition. It throws out the word "cab" as too small, so consequently I end up trying to through in other words that I remember were in the posts....but for example when I use "cab", "ac", "noise" ...Noise is the only word kept and it gives me a whole bunch of unrelated threads...
thanks
would it be a thought to put the "News" thread at the top of the forum list rather than at the bottom?? I had never noticed it until I was trying to understand what was going on with the forum last month.
Am I doing something wrong with the "Search" function. I was trying to find old threads about homemade cabs as I lost my "saved threads" in the software transition. It throws out the word "cab" as too small, so consequently I end up trying to through in other words that I remember were in the posts....but for example when I use "cab", "ac", "noise" ...Noise is the only word kept and it gives me a whole bunch of unrelated threads...
thanks
would it be a thought to put the "News" thread at the top of the forum list rather than at the bottom?? I had never noticed it until I was trying to understand what was going on with the forum last month.
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"Check this screen shot attached... do you see what I've circled?"
Mossroad, thanks for the screen shot.
Frankly it was a struggle to find this thread again. I did get back here today, somehow...
Anyway, I do not have that box on my screen and cannot find how it might be enabled. I am using FireFox, not IE, maybe that is the reason.
I appreciate your including the screen shot as it makes more sense now. IF I had that box I would check it. I would rather have the ability to check it in my personal settings so that I ALWAYS came to the last unread post though.
Anyway, I can visit using IE and will try that and see if it is a FireFox related issue...
Mossroad, thanks for the screen shot.
Frankly it was a struggle to find this thread again. I did get back here today, somehow...
Anyway, I do not have that box on my screen and cannot find how it might be enabled. I am using FireFox, not IE, maybe that is the reason.
I appreciate your including the screen shot as it makes more sense now. IF I had that box I would check it. I would rather have the ability to check it in my personal settings so that I ALWAYS came to the last unread post though.
Anyway, I can visit using IE and will try that and see if it is a FireFox related issue...
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I still see that box. I saw it just before I replied to you. I don't use it anymore since the issue was resolved, but it still works. Now each time I check a thread, I now go to the first new post in it since the last time I was here. That's why I thought the issue was resolved. However, Bill is still having troubles. Any suggestions for him? Logging out, clearing the cache and dumping the cookies, then logging back in, perhaps?
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For me, if I go to a new thread I see the View First Unread box.
If I click on the text next to the box, I go to the last post in the thread (I think I do...confusing).
If I leave the thread and come back, I don't see the box anymore, and I find myself at the top of the thread, at the first post.
This is what I think I remember anyway.
(took another look before typing the following)
I just looked at a thread that I know I looked at before, but did not read. Things may have worked right on that one, as I was taken to the middle of the thread somewhere (not to the first post). ALSO, that View First Unread box + text was visable.
After checking again, I am pretty sure what is confusing to me (and perhaps others).
(and after another look...)
It seems that after viewing a thread, when I come back I am taken to the first unread post. Then if I come back to that thread again, BEFORE a new post is added to it, I am taken to the top of the thread, rather than to the bottom as used to be, and the "view first unread" text is not visable.
APPARENTLY if one looks at a thread, and is taken to the top, and the "view first unread" text is not visable, this tells you that there are no unread posts to view...
With the old software, if there were no unread POSTS you were taken to the last post in the thread. This was a more logical place to be taken to in my way of thinking and probably the root cause of my confusion.
Although I probably sound more confused than ever...in my mind I am becoming less confused...
If I click on the text next to the box, I go to the last post in the thread (I think I do...confusing).
If I leave the thread and come back, I don't see the box anymore, and I find myself at the top of the thread, at the first post.
This is what I think I remember anyway.
(took another look before typing the following)
I just looked at a thread that I know I looked at before, but did not read. Things may have worked right on that one, as I was taken to the middle of the thread somewhere (not to the first post). ALSO, that View First Unread box + text was visable.
After checking again, I am pretty sure what is confusing to me (and perhaps others).
(and after another look...)
It seems that after viewing a thread, when I come back I am taken to the first unread post. Then if I come back to that thread again, BEFORE a new post is added to it, I am taken to the top of the thread, rather than to the bottom as used to be, and the "view first unread" text is not visable.
APPARENTLY if one looks at a thread, and is taken to the top, and the "view first unread" text is not visable, this tells you that there are no unread posts to view...
With the old software, if there were no unread POSTS you were taken to the last post in the thread. This was a more logical place to be taken to in my way of thinking and probably the root cause of my confusion.
Although I probably sound more confused than ever...in my mind I am becoming less confused...