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[SagaLore]

My suggestion for these forums:

If I understand the folder colors, blue means recently active, and yellow means dormant. Red is locked.

I visit anandtech from home, work, and school, and I lose track of what forums I have participated in. I don't like to always subscribe to a thread.

It would be nice if there were a few more color indications.

Purple - I visited the thread, but did not post in it. (only shows while thread is still active)
Green - I visited the thread, and have posted in it.

 

[theMan]

hey, thats a pretty good idea.

 

[Kyteland]

Blue = New posts since you last visited
Yellow = No new posts since you last visited.

The "last visited" date is pulled from your cookies, and the folder colors are (probably) set using javascript. It is all done client side. The "last visited" date is also computer dependant. If you brows from work and then go home, the blue folders won't pick up from where you left off at work. It'll pick up from when you last visited from home.

What you are proposing would mostly be server side stuff. It would bring AnandTech to its knees.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Kyteland
What you are proposing would mostly be server side stuff. It would bring AnandTech to its knees.

No, it wouldn't. It would require a table similar to that for Subscriptions.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Kyteland
What you are proposing would mostly be server side stuff. It would bring AnandTech to its knees.

No, it wouldn't. It would require a table similar to that for Subscriptions.

I subscribe to about 1 in every 100 threads I post in. I post in about 1 in every 20 threads I read. Maybe I'm not a typical forum user, but that's a huge increase in database usage.

If it's a feature you really want to see, suggest it to FuseTalk. They just finished up their latest version so you might not see it for a while....