How do view first unread post in a long thread

That I've followed off and on before. The only equivalent I can find is to follow a thread. Even then, if a thread I'm following sho s in update, i have to back out to the forum index level to have it take me to the last ready post in that thread. I must be missing some thing obvious.

If it's a threadyou're following, you don't have to back out to the forum index level. Notifications of new posts to followed threads are shown at the top of every page you're looking at. There may be exceptions to this that I haven't yet discovered.

As for unfollowed threads, if the software had to track the last post you and every other forum member read in every single thread, followed or not, I'd suppose that the database requirements would be substantially bigger than they are. And then Pekka might start charging money.

If you go to new and followed, and look at new posts, even if you don't follow a thread, it seems to know that you had already read parts of it, because there is a column that shows all read, go to first unread, or nothing. It would seem to me that if you were in a thread you did not follow, and went back to it days later, it should take you to the next unread? Not sure though.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #17313194
If you go to new and followed, and look at new posts, even if you don't follow a thread, it seems to know that you had already read parts of it, because there is a column that shows all read, go to first unread, or nothing. It would seem to me that if you were in a thread you did not follow, and went back to it days later, it should take you to the next unread? Not sure though.

Yes, that's what happens. I don't follow any threads. The column on a forum page tells me whether there's something new in a thread I looked at before. But I have to have looked at the thread since the switch to AMASS. The column doesn't accurately keep track of what pages/posts I saw at Old POTN. Opening the thread and catching up with the latest posts resets it so that next time the column "knows" where I've been.

garryknight wrote in post #17313172
If it's a threadyou're following, you don't have to back out to the forum index level. Notifications of new posts to followed threads are shown at the top of every page you're looking at. There may be exceptions to this that I haven't yet discovered.

As for unfollowed threads, if the software had to track the last post you and every other forum member read in every single thread, followed or not, I'd suppose that the database requirements would be substantially bigger than they are. And then Pekka might start charging money.

I'm on an ipad2 so please forgive my laziness on not splitting your quote out. Last evening I was clicking on followed threads (purple) link and was getting no response (it indicated a new reply) from within a non-related thread. So I followed 3 more threads and this evening I am getting the response one would expect when I click on the (purple) followed thread link, from non related threads. Perhaps it was a fluke, or my device acting up. Now it's working!

As per your second paragraph, phbb does that already, I do not believe the DB Requirements have been a factor for years if not a decade. I have not dealt with Internet software since the days of Wildcat and dial up modems. ( I ran The Digital Vortex BBS, 9 lines of 128K dial up goodness circa 1999).

I am not trying to be sarcastic or negative, I was just pointing out what, at the time, appeared to be a bug. Not seeing it now.

TeamSpeed wrote in post #17313194
If you go to new and followed, and look at new posts, even if you don't follow a thread, it seems to know that you had already read parts of it, because there is a column that shows all read, go to first unread, or nothing. It would seem to me that if you were in a thread you did not follow, and went back to it days later, it should take you to the next unread? Not sure though.

I keep looking for that old 'Go to first unread' when I enter a thread, and I am just not seeing it. The threads I've clicked on that I know I looked at under pphbb, are not taking me back to the next unread. I wish they would do that be default!