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[Gina Stevenson]

We see there that someone can ask them to:

(1) show printable version
(2) email this page
(3) subscribe to this thread

Well, is there perhaps some option(s) that have not been chosen to be added her? What would be extremely helpful, so many threads don't keep showing up in "What's New?" would be a:

(4) Mark this thread as read!

You can do that with a complete forum, or forums, but not a thread. For instance, many on the CE forum I'd just as soon mark read, to not see them over & over in a list, sometimes wasting times checking them and then going, "Oh, yeah ... we aren't reading that one." HOWEVER, that does not mean we want to mark the entire forum as already read, b/c there are some that would be preferred reading.

AND if you click on it and go to the last page, if you've not taken time to let each individual page open and then closed it, it will appear again yet for those pages not yet touched. Doing this for many pages, one at a time, can be a time waster.

[OK, edited to add: seems like this would happen before but, after writing this, I did open some threads which I didn't even care to bother with opening, and then told it to go to the last page ... then clicked "What's New?" again. It wasn't there, after all, after going to the "last page." BUT, if anyone posts in the thread again, it will appear all over again as "new" if we can't "close" it out of our thread-recognition preference with some "thread tool." Maybe that #4 should be adjusted to be not, "show as read," but somehow "this thread will not appear in the future" sort of thing? Maybe not possible, after some tho't, huh? ;)
At least it will let you go to page ten, so you've only opened pages one and ten, instead of one through ten, for it to not appear ... at least until a newer post is added. ;)]

Thanks! ;)

[Rich Schmidt]

[OK, edited to add: seems like this would happen before but, after writing this, I did open some threads which I didn't even care to bother with opening, and then told it to go to the last page ... then clicked "What's New?" again. It wasn't there, after all, after going to the "last page." BUT, if anyone posts in the thread again, it will appear all over again as "new" if we can't "close" it out of our thread-recognition preference with some "thread tool." Maybe that #4 should be adjusted to be not, "show as read," but somehow "this thread will not appear in the future" sort of thing? Maybe not possible, after some tho't, huh? ;)
At least it will let you go to page ten, so you've only opened pages one and ten, instead of one through ten, for it to not appear ... at least until a newer post is added. ;)]

I didn't even know the "What's New" (or "New Posts") page worked that way, hiding threads you've already read. I thought it just showed all the threads in the order of their most recent posts.

It doesn't sound to me like you're looking for an option to mark a thread as "read." Because that thread would still pop up if someone posted something new in it. That would be normal "mark as read" behavior. If something new is added that you haven't read, it should pop up as unread.

It sounds like you're looking for an option to "hide" or "ignore" a thread entirely. I have no idea if that's an option with the vBulletin software.

Personally, I don't see a need for it. I don't try to read every thread (by far!), so I already ignore lots of threads. But I wouldn't want to "hide" them, because what if next week something happens that makes me interested in the thread? What if I'm searching later for a topic? Would "hidden" threads show up in search results?

[Gina Stevenson]

Oh, hadn't tho't about whether or not they would show up in a search were done for a topic. Maybe they could still show up in a search, tho' not showing as a, "You've-got-to-read-this-thread-again-b/c-someone-added-a-new-post" sort of thread. ;)

Edited to add that I guess I tho't, since you can mark people's names to "ignore" (tho' I don't do that ... wonder if anyone's "ignoring" me? ;)), you might be able to mark a thread whose topic you just don't even care about to not keep showing up. ;)