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DaleReid:
This is neither a Bug or Suggestion, but a question on how this board's software works.

Here's what I want to do, and I would imagine the feature is here, but I just don't know how to invoke it.

Usually when I log in I look at the unread messages, using the "show Unread Messages since last visit" option right below my name on the top left of the home page.

I see something interesting, but if I don't reply to it, I have no way of finding the topic again since my memory is both short and not always classifying the discussion as someone else miay choose to.

Once I leave the page, and come back a few hours or day later, the new messages of course has only the new ones.

I want to be able to list ALL the messages that have been on the board, not only  the new ones, but back further.  I would envision a list of all messages coming in being added to such a list, and one merely would have to scroll backwards along the list, and in essence back in time, to recognize the topic I was interested in.

As it is now, I would have to open every special interest area to try to find what I'm thinking about.

Is this something this forum's software can do?

Dale

Colin:
Hello Dale,
In the absence of replies I give my 2 cents worth.
At the end of the topic you are interested in there is a tab called Send This Topic. Just click that and send it to your email address. Forum admin will email you the link. You can go back to it next month if you like.
Hope that is what you mean.

DaleReid:
Colin,
Thanks for the work around, and it will work for the 'real important' threads I want to follow.

The problem is I have a poor memory and a few weeks or even days after I glance through stuff, may suddenly have a more intense interest than I did at the time I first read it, then can't always remember the key words in the topic header to go searching for it.

I was just hoping that a section of All Messages existed, and that you could scroll back through the subject and authors' listing to see if something jogged my memory.

Thanks for taking the time to reply and yes I'll use your method to point to the important topics that I think I may need.  At least in my email inbox that scrolls back in time as I suggested would be helpful here.
Dale

W3DRM:
If you go back to the wxforum.net home page, and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, you will see several items, one of which is labeled "Forum Stats". Under that you will see "View the most recent posts on the forum". Just click on that and you'll see a list of the last 100 posts made. See the attached screen capture...

SLOweather:
As an admin, this is how I almost always access the forum, to see what's happening and trending, even thought I may not read all the posts.

I will say that duration covered by "the last 100 posts" is like asking how long a baseball game lasts. :) Rarely, 100 posts goes back a half a day or 3 days. Mostly it seems to be about a day.



--- Quote from: W3DRM on April 12, 2017, 10:31:45 AM ---If you go back to the wxforum.net home page, and scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, you will see several items, one of which is labeled "Forum Stats". Under that you will see "View the most recent posts on the forum". Just click on that and you'll see a list of the last 100 posts made. See the attached screen capture...

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