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Not sure where this belongs, but, can I suggest a small change to the site

one of the things that's very hard to do is to quickly tell which posts have been made as a reply to an earlier post in the middle of a discussion, especially as the number rises over twenty. It would be a lot easier to spot and check such posts if something was done to make those posts stand out.

Now I notice the system shows the number of hours since the post was made, then the number of days once it's over 24 hours, and then the date once it's been up about a week. What about having the words hours and days in a stand out bright colour, say bright orange or red or something, and each as a different colour. So once a post says x days the word 'days' can read in say bright green, and when it's 'hours' it can read in say bright read. Thus when I want to scan the list of posts for anything new in the last day or so, I need only stop to look at the posts where the green 'days' or red 'hours' shows.

Someone who knows where to direct this, please raise the idea with the relevant powers that be. Also, those who think it's a good idea, please register your support by either a vote or a post.

I've been trying to follow a couple of recent discussions, but when the posting gets beyond a certain point you just have to give up. If there was an easy way to scan and pick out the new responses it would make things an awful lot easier when dropping back to a discussion to try to catch up.

So that's an improvement.

titles or text in any posts at all. At least, not any that stand out as far as I can tell. In many threads the very last post, and only the last post is repeated at the very top of the thread, but that's not always the case, especially if it's a discussion from a blog post.

I have noticed when this site updates, the browser cache doesn't seem to update with it, and the site gets glitchy.

Also, I am using firefox. Maybe that matters.

times each day.

The closest I get to bold is to put the cursor on it and it goes bold with an underline be it an old message or a new one.

Checking the view source this is the code for a new message in another thread that's new since I last closed the browser, followed by the same section of code for the message it's a reply to which was there and read the last time I checked the thread. The lead in code for each message and the main text of the message is exactly the same for both.

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(h6 class="title")(a tbkcustomaction="selectMsg" href="/forum/discussions/103-391597-3676301")Do you consider disagreement to be abuse?(/a)(/h6)

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(span class="name")(a href="/members/profile/858923")NickNielsen(/a)(/span)
(span class="date" title="Edited - Jun 13, 2012 @ 10:00 AM (PDT)")Updated - 7 minutes ago(/span)

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(h6 class="title")(a tbkcustomaction="selectMsg" href="/forum/discussions/103-391597-3676017")That sounds familiar(/a)(/h6)

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(span class="name")(a href="/members/profile/4002728")john.a.wills@...(/a)(/span)
(span class="date" title="Jun 12, 2012 @ 7:14 PM (PDT)")14 hrs ago(/span)

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the code reads the same for the class and header of both posts.

Anyway, even if it bolds in some browsers and not others due to being optimised for one, it would be a dang sight easier if they were colour coded as suggested. The site already has the code to put the two different words in, it shouldn't be much to amend the code to have the words in a different colour as well.

"My default view for discussions is:"
you also need this setting in your preferences set to collapsed, bold does not show in expanded.

new posts as expanded posts?

and posts that have been edited since I last read them get re-bolded, and since expanding each post does not reload the whole page it actually works out well.

I still thinks it's a very worthwhile idea as it will also show in the collapsed view too.

Why not right?
And in addition to bold, I want them coloured in some way.

is let's say I'm at the "Discussions" tab, click on one, then click on the actual
title of the blog (if it's a thread to a blog post), then wait for the entire thing to
load, then at the start of the discussions click on the "New" tab. That can be
quite a bit of work when a discussion grows to over about 100 posts!

My default view is expanded. To find the new posts, I use the page search function (Ctrl-F) and search for "hour ago", "hours ago", and "day ago" to find new or newly updated posts. Being keyboard oriented, I use Ctrl-Y and Ctrl-Z to move back and forth between them. (I could search for "minutes ago", but I rarely get the chance to return to discussions that quickly.)

Yeah, it's a pain in the butt, but it works better for me than any of the other alternatives I've found.

I'm using FF with NoScript and AdBlock Plus.