Hi folks, nice forum.

Joel was right to keep his forum software basic, but maybe two small suggestions can be considered here.

1) On the main page: Draw a *tiniest* asterisk next to the threads you've posted in.

2) In a thread: Draw a *thinnish* line after the last post you've made -- easy to pick up the conversation when you revisit the thread.

No idea how this should be done (not a web person myself), but, I have a vague suspicion, cookies+javascript?

Marking your place in a thread would actually require quite a lot of data to be stored on the server, unless you used a cookie, in which case it'd be a HUGE cookie.

Anyway Mr Powers weren't you here last night denigrating this place?  It seems to have scrolled off...

"HUGE cookie"

An array of topicId's is HUGE?

You could even make it a FILO list of 70 entrys, since that's what the main page is set to pull.

> Anyway Mr Powers weren't you here last night denigrating this place?

Nope, can't say I did. This is my first post here. (I did chide Andy in the final throes of ?off, maybe that's why you remember me.)

Eh, Jeff, I guess it's just me but I prefer to use cookies for itty bitty strings and that's it.  :)

Oh, marking your place in the thread?

Still seems trivial... Your name is stored in a cookie, so if  you could just find the last post matching that name with some javascript and throw in a marker, that's it.

I would rather it mark where the thread was the last time you opened it though.

> I would rather it mark where the thread was the last time you opened it though.

Oh! That's totally what I meant (blame my A.D.D.).

If a thread has progressed so far since you last opened it that you need a bookmark, you're probably best skipping to the end anyway as anything you reply to midway up is no longer relevant, especially given the dynamic nature of discussions on this site.

Yeah that makes it even more trivial:

A set of key and value pairs with the key being the topicID and the value being the last commentID read in that topic.

I agree muppet. The one I would really like is the asterisks after the topics that I've posted in on the main page.

times 70.

Meh, I guess.

"times 70"

No, just 70 key and value pairs. That's not very big muppet. Not at all really.

since basically a key would only be: 3874
and a value would be: 29834

Just do what I do - post in every thread you want to keep track of, no matter how little you actually have to say, and pick up from where you left off.

That explains a great deal.

Or just read all the threads on the page and click refresh like a mad fuck.  When it goes blue, go read.

> That explains a great deal.

That's what she said.