The Official Scott Cundiff guide to using NazNet

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Here's how I do it...

1. Settings>My Account>General Settings>Thread Display Options: Thread Display - Linear - Newest first (keeps new posts the top of pages rather than the bottom)
2. Scroll down and pick the Simple Black forum skin
3. Now, near the top of that page (or any other page) click on "What's New?" Bookmark that page (add to favorites, etc.) put that bookmark where it is always visible
4. From now on, visit NazNet only using that bookmark - you'll see all the posts added since your last visit
5. Read the ones you want, respond, etc.
6. Then, just to be sure someone hasn't posted something wonderful while you were reading/writing - click on that bookmark again and check on new posts once more.
7. When you are finished, click on that link once more - but this time, in the second row of the navbar, click on "Mark Forums Read."
8. Now go about your browsing business, the next time you visit NazNet, repeat items 4-7.

There you have it, my official NazNet guide.

What's yours?

[Gina Stevenson]

OK, found "What's New" ... here's where I "splained" what I tried first, before seeing your posts, since "new posts" was/is still visible top left:

http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?4448-quot-NEW-POSTS-quot-is-visible-yet-but-...

[Marsha Lynn]

Here's how I do it...

1. Settings>My Account>General Settings>Thread Display Options: Thread Display - Linear - Newest first (keeps new posts the top of pages rather than the bottom)
2. Scroll down and pick the Simple Black forum skin
3. Now, near the top of that page (or any other page) click on "What's New?" Bookmark that page (add to favorites, etc.) put that bookmark where it is always visible
4. From now on, visit NazNet only using that bookmark - you'll see all the posts added since your last visit
5. Read the ones you want, respond, etc.
6. Then, just to be sure someone hasn't posted something wonderful while you were reading/writing - click on that bookmark again and check on new posts once more.
7. When you are finished, click on that link once more - but this time, in the second row of the navbar, click on "Mark Forums Read."
8. Now go about your browsing business, the next time you visit NazNet, repeat items 4-7.

There you have it, my official NazNet guide.

What's yours?

While I'm sure your method works fine for amateurs, I would suggest that you might want to take the next step at some point. Here's my method:

1. Keep a set of NazNet tabs open in your browser at all times. When you're ready to visit NazNet all you have to do is switch to that window (or group of tabs).
2. Choose the hybrid view rather than the linear view. That way you can check out the thread structure to see who is responding to whom. (Other than the linear people who sometimes put their posts in odd places because they can't see the organization of the thread.)
3. The first tab is for seeing what is happening today at NazNet. The URL you need for this is no longer easily found, but I will reveal the secret here: www.naznet.com/community/search.php?do=getdaily (http://www.naznet.com/community/search.php?do=getdaily) You can use a bookmark for this, but since you will be using it over and over, it will be at the top of the dropdown list for your browser and you can simply access it that way. This lets you see what unread threads you might want to investigate. The read (not bold) threads will let you see how your recent visits fit into the day's postings and perhaps remind you that you were considering responding to a particular thread when you had more time.
4. The second tab you keep open is the settings tab. This gives you a quick look at subscribed threads with new posts.
5. (recent revision) The third tab is for "my profile" so you can see if people have been responding to your posts wordlessly. (This info was formerly on the settings tab. The jury is still out as to whether the settings tab can now be eliminated from the always open list.)
6. On any of these tabs, you can right-click on a thread of interest, choose 'open in new tab,' and read and respond, closing the extra tabs when you're done.
7. When you are finished, refresh each of your three basic tabs (using the dropdown URL for the first tab), check your email, refresh the tabs again, read and respond to new posts, refresh the tabs again, repeat multiple times, realize that time has slipped away at an alarming rate, forcefully minimize your browser window, and return to real life.
8. When you return to NazNet, your three tabs will be waiting for you. Just refresh and repeat.
9. Never, NEVER come close to the "mark all forums read" button. This will erase your history of which threads you have actually read and which ones you might want to investigate on a future visit.

[Shea Zellweger]

oy, you people...
-I use the linear view as well, but leave posts as oldest first, so I can read the thread in the order which it appeared.
-When opening a thread, be sure to click on the blue icon to the left of the thread name, so that you are taken to the first unread post (first post made after the last time you visited the thread or marked it as read), this way you're not skipping to the end or missing crucial posts.

[Rich Schmidt]

oy, you people...
-I use the linear view as well, but leave posts as oldest first, so I can read the thread in the order which it appeared.
-When opening a thread, be sure to click on the blue icon to the left of the thread name, so that you are taken to the first unread post (first post made after the last time you visited the thread or marked it as read), this way you're not skipping to the end or missing crucial posts.

My approach is similar.

1. I always do linear. I can't stand threaded, because I don't want to have to click on every post in order to read it. I want to be able to just scroll down the page. Hybrid... well, I guess I could. It just seems to waste a bunch of space at the top of the screen with the threads I'm not using. :)

1.a. That's the same reason I went into settings and set it to display 30 posts per page. I don't want to have to load a new page every 10 posts!

1.b. And, like Shea, I leave oldest posts first. Newest first feels backwards. If you're in a thread with long posts, you're doing lots of extra scrolling: Up to the start of the next post, then down through the post, then back up through that post and the next to where the next one starts, then down through that post. We read left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Oldest first means you just keep going top-to-bottom through the thread!

1.c. As long as people "reply with quote" the structure of the thread is always clear. The only time hybrid/threaded would help me is when people reply-without-quote and don't give enough context to make it clear which post they're replying to.


2. When I visit NazNet, I do so by typing "n" into the Chrome browser's address bar. The most recent/common URL I visit that starts with "n" is http://naznet.com/community/subscription.php, so that's where it takes me. That's where I start every time. (This makes for a quick jump into NazNet wheneve the mood strikes. Command-T, N, Return, and I'm there.)

3. I command-click the blue arrows next to the thread titles of all the threads with new posts in them. This opens them all in new tabs. Depending on how long it's been since my last visit, that's between 2 and 12 threads.

4. Once I'm all caught up, I reload http://naznet.com/community/subscription.php (or just open it again in a new tab).

5. If there's nothing new, I click the New Posts link in the upper-left corner & scan through the threads with new posts in them, command-clicking any that look interesting into new tabs.


And now I've just spent way more time than I had available talking about how I use NazNet! Good grief! Get me outta here! :)

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

You poor deluded people. Here I offer you manna and you respond with a desire for garlic and leeks.

[Jim Chabot]

You poor deluded people. Here I offer you manna and you respond with a desire for garlic and leeks.

What! We had meat while we were in Egypt! Garlic and leeks? Your no better than Moses!:smilies0295:

[Shea Zellweger]

3. I command-click the blue arrows next to the thread titles of all the threads with new posts in them. This opens them all in new tabs. Depending on how long it's been since my last visit, that's between 2 and 12 threads.


yeah, I wasn't sure how many people used tabs, but command-click (or right-click-> open in new tab) is helpful.

[Craig Laughlin]

Personally, I'm just for anything that is "official Scott Cundiff" :smilies0262:

[Gina Stevenson]

7. When you are finished, refresh each of your three basic tabs (using the dropdown URL for the first tab), check your email, refresh the tabs again, read and respond to new posts, refresh the tabs again, repeat multiple times, realize that time has slipped away at an alarming rate, forcefully minimize your browser window, and return to real life.

Best one in the list, Marsha. ;)


9. Never, NEVER come close to the "mark all forums read" button. This will erase your history of which threads you have actually read and which ones you might want to investigate on a future visit.

Yes, I've accidentally done this a couple, or more, times! Do try to stay away from that button. What I've not seen is how to "mark read" an entire thread, without having to do that to the whole forum it's in. (???)


oy, you people...
-I use the linear view as well, but leave posts as oldest first, so I can read the thread in the order which it appeared.

Right. And agreed about the little icon to the left that says "first unread post." Don't want to have to start at #1 and then try to figure out for yourself which you last read, especially when it will do this for you.

[Jay Stiegelmeyer]

Am I the only NazNetter who exclusively uses the RSS feed for new content? I just subscribe to the feed (http://www.naznet.com/community/external.php?type=RSS2) and then I see every new thread in Google Reader (my feeder of choice). From there I click on any thread that interestes me to fully read through and subscribe and/or post.

[Gina Stevenson]

You poor deluded people. Here I offer you manna and you respond with a desire for garlic and leeks.

Guess I missed this before. But, Scott, I love, love, LOVE garlic! Leeks are not bad, either (first bo't them on sale not all that long ago). ;)

Anyway, what I don't know whether to love or hate ~~ actually, it was a distraction this AM ~~ is what someone has just recently done (since yesterday) to the "Notifications" which usually just means you have a PM awaiting you.

I got to NazNet today to find it says: "Notifications: 154" !!! What!? Then I click on that drop-down and it says "154 New Posts Thanks / Like Alerts." Oh, my goodness! So, we open that section in another tab, and it tells me I'm on "Page 1 of 286" ... again, huh!? 286 pages, apparently one of those "thanks/like" notifications on each!? Don't really want to open all those pages to wipe out that "Notifications: 154" number, and that usually stays there when PMs are left unopened.

Who figured we needed to have such notifications and wanted to take time to open page-by-page each of those "notifications"? What happened!?

Anyway, checked for this in "general discussion," "technology," and "using NazNet" before posting this as a new thread, so as to not have any duplicate.

ETA: Well, I started this before (1) the dog got loose, (2) the furnace guy came, and then I finished this. After posting it, I renewed the "search" page, and the notifications were gone. Apparently something happened that someone changed very quickly back to "normal." Thanks much! ;)

[Bill Morrison]

Where is the button that lets you only read posts you will like and avoid posts that make you come close to losing your religion (or posts that convince you someone else probably already has:smile:)!

BILL

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Where is the button that lets you only read posts you will like and avoid posts that make you come close to losing your religion (or posts that convince you someone else probably already has:smile:)!

BILL

Advanced Search>Search for posts by> type in G.R. "Scott" Cundiff

That's it!

[Gina Stevenson]

Advanced Search>Search for posts by> type in G.R. "Scott" Cundiff

That's it!



:smilies1722: Fun post of the day, Scott! :smilies0262:

[Jim Franklin]

Scott, you must have been the top student in your Greek class.

[Hans Deventer]

Scott, you must have been the top student in your Greek class.

Jim, that was the Geek class :)

[Marsha Lynn]

Where is the button that lets you only read posts you will like and avoid posts that make you come close to losing your religion (or posts that convince you someone else probably already has:smile:)!

BILL

Too bad you weren't around back in the days when we had a hidden by-invitation-only forum for brilliant and witty people where one could be sure to discover all brilliance, all the time. None of the obnoxious or humdrum stuff.

At least that's what I heard. Somehow my invitation got lost in the mail.

:smilies1390:

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Too bad you weren't around back in the days when we had a hidden by-invitation-only forum for brilliant and witty people where one could be sure to discover all brilliance, all the time. None of the obnoxious or humdrum stuff.

:smilies1390:

Still do.

[Gina Stevenson]

Too bad you weren't around back in the days when we had a hidden by-invitation-only forum for brilliant and witty people where one could be sure to discover all brilliance, all the time. None of the obnoxious or humdrum stuff.

At least that's what I heard. Somehow my invitation got lost in the mail.

:smilies1390:

Lost in the mail ... just like Hyacinth Bucket (that's bouquet, not bucket) had her invitation to some fancy-schmancy royalty tea lost in the mail :smilies1722: ... the one she kept bugging the postman for, sure that it should get there any day now. :smilies0295:

[well, that's one of the older PBS comedies that keeps repeating on Saturday evening that we can't help but hear again & again if we're at the house, the TV having such an extreme volume, one cannot shut it out when Ma has it on]

[Marsha Lynn]

Still do.

Four days later and I still haven't come up with a witty response for this. (I wonder if that has anything to do with my invitation to join the hidden forum being lost in the mail.)

I'm just thankful for the times the brilliant and witty are willing to share their gems with those of us on the outside. Such largesse!

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

It's been a week and I still haven't come up with a witty response for this. (I wonder if that has anything to do with my invitation to join the hidden forum being lost in the mail.)

I'm just thankful for the times the brilliant and witty are willing to share their gems with those of us on the outside. Such largesse!

Pretty witty response if you ask me!