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[Bill]

The more observant of you may have already noticed a little improvement to the site since last night. This came from a suggestion from chrisqqgx4. You will see that, if you are in a forum index or inside a thread, you can now navigate the site from the bottom of the page as well as from the top. This is very helpful if you have read to the bottom of a thread - you no longer have to go back to the top of the page, or click Return, to get to where you want to be next.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, the example for this thread is:

Book Group Online > ANYTHING BUT BOOKS > Announcements & Tips
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There it is below as well as above.

[MissRibena]

Hi Bill

I'm a mere new kid on the block and am really enjoying posting on the broad spectrum of topics on BGO. I hope you don't mind a comment so early in my contributions but I just wanted to mention that with all the different categories it can be a bit confusing knowing where to post, particularly in fiction. For example, to check for a duplication of a 21st Century North American Romance, I'd have to look for threads in three different sections, which is a bit cumbersome.

Other than that I love the site and hope you don't find this too cheeky!

Rebecca

[megustaleer]

For example, to check for a duplication of a 21st Century North American Romance, I'd have to look for threads in three different sections, which is a bit cumbersome. Rebecca

Don't know what Bill's 'official' response will be, but I suggest using the 'search' button at the top of the main Forums Home page, and that will show all the threads for a particular book/subject. You can then use that information to choose the most relevant forum for your comment.

[MissRibena]

Thanks megustaleer. The search is working well for me :)

Rebecca

[Bill]

Hi Bill

I'm a mere new kid on the block and am really enjoying posting on the broad spectrum of topics on BGO. I hope you don't mind a comment so early in my contributions but I just wanted to mention that with all the different categories it can be a bit confusing knowing where to post, particularly in fiction. For example, to check for a duplication of a 21st Century North American Romance, I'd have to look for threads in three different sections, which is a bit cumbersome.

Other than that I love the site and hope you don't find this too cheeky!

Rebecca

Miss R, I know it can seem overwhelming at first, but now you have been around and contributing for a few days, I hope you are finding method in our madness.

As for a 21st Century North American Romance, in my opinion, the genre should predominate: therefore, it would be best to go under Romance.

[ChrisG]

Bill,

I have been wondering . . . why do some multi-page threads come up with a 'Read First Unread' bar at the top and others do not? I find that clicking on the FIRST page in some allows me to jump to the last one I read, but others I have to scroll through the whole thing. What's the deal? :confused:

[Bill]

Er...bit technical for me...pass. :o

Anyone else have any thoughts?

[Adrian]

From the user side, I can only imagine it changes when you are logged in as your user name or just browing as a guest.

Emptying cookies and cache doesn't change it, so looking at a URL associated with the 'Read First Unread' bar, there's this:

http://www.bookgrouponline.com/forum/showthread.html?t=835&goto=newpost

Bill, I'd get your technical guy to look at whatever does newpost

Chrisg, not sure of what's actually happening. Are you saying when you click on the RFU bar it sometimes takes you into the first page of the thread, sometimes it lines you up properly on your last unread post in the thread?

Or is it (as I suspect), that the RFU bar appears and works only if there are posts you haven't yet read in thread?

It's not something I use so sorry if I'm not clear. (I even had to go see where the bar was!)

[ChrisG]

This happens when I am logged in. For example: If I click on the title 'Lyric Chain' in 'Anything But Books', I get a 'View First Unread' bar at the very top. But, if I go into the 'Humour' section and click on the title 'Corrupted Wish Game', I do not get the bar and, instead, have to choose pages and scroll through until I find the last post I read. Has happened in other places, too, but these are the ones I remember off the top of my head. No real biggie, just wondered why, is all. :confused:

[Opal]

I think the difference is in when you last visited the site. The BGO site logs when we all sign in and out (or leave the site depending on how you log in - for example I only use one computer so it logs me in automatically and logs me out when I leave the site, but that's beside the point). When you log in, forums that have been added to since your last log in have orange symbols beside them. Within these forums/threads you can use VFU buttons. The site doesn't remember which forums you visit, so if you log in but only have time to look in Central Library say, then when you next log in, the posts in Anything But Books that you didn't read previously won't appear as new, so the VFU link may not be there or might take you to the wrong post. Hope that explains it! :)

[My Friend Jack]

Yeah, what she said. :confused:

[ChrisG]

Doesn't seem to be the case, but never mind. Pretty much about to throw in the towel, now, anyway.