What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

[IslandTractor]

What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

There are slight differences but it appears to be about 80-90% overlap. Why have two buttons?

 

[/pine]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

IIRC...the former was part of an updated version of the software...before the popularity some message boards would not get visited/posted to on a daily basis...

 

[davrow]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

"New Posts" disappear when "Mark All Read" is pressed. Makes it easy to view.
I never use "Today's Posts" but assumed they would all still show up, read or not.

 

[coldsteelva]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

New Posts is different for everyone and is related to your log in and what YOU have read/participated in. Today's post is calendar driven, whereas a new member of TBN would see New Posts as All posts until they started reading a ton or clicking on Mark All Read in order to get a clean start point.

 

[LD1]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

New posts are all posts that have had activity (someone posting in the thread) since you last viewed it.

Todays posts are ALL posts in chronological order. Thats why in todays posts most of them appear highlighted yellow, but the ones you have already read and nothing new happening....arent highlighted. (at least if ou are using the same version of TBN as me)

 

[LD1]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

Todays posts.....notice it shows this thread but dont have yellow background...as well as a few other threads I have viewed:



New posts, removes all the ones I have viewed (that show up with white background) from the list:

 

[IslandTractor]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

Well, thanks for the explanation guys. It still doesn't seem like such a useful function given how huge TBN is these days. I cannot believe anyone really checks all new posts. I wonder if TBN could set it up so that we could limit the forums and see only new or today's posts from the forums we choose to follow. I guess I kinda do that already though on "My Home".

 

[davrow]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

I read the titles of every new post (about two pages of posts). But I only open 5 or 6 each time I log on then mark all read so they stop showing up (until another post made).

 

[k0ua]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

I just click on today's post's and look at all of them. I open ones that interest me.

 

[von-mil]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

Well, thanks for the explanation guys. It still doesn't seem like such a useful function given how huge TBN is these days. I cannot believe anyone really checks all new posts. I wonder if TBN could set it up so that we could limit the forums and see only new or today's posts from the forums we choose to follow. I guess I kinda do that already though on "My Home".

There is a way to display posts from just a selected group of forums rather than posts from all forums. It's a little cumbersome though.

Create a bookmark for a URL that looks something like this:

http ://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/search.php?do=getnew&contenttype=vBForum_Post&include=43,44,45

The numbers separated by commas at the end of the URL represent the TBN forum ID numbers; 43 is Owning/Operating, 44 is Parts/Repairs, and so on. Include as many as you want. Or, instead of "&include=", use "&exclude=" to exclude certain forums from the search result. This will work with either "getnew" for New Posts or with "getdaily" for Today's Posts.

The cumbersome part is finding the forum ID numbers. The only way I know of to get them is to go to each individual forum page (via the FORUMS tab on the top-most banner of any TBN page), then hover over the "+Post New Thread" button. The thread ID should show up at the very end of the URL that the "Post New Thread" button would take you to.

There was a thread a few years ago where Muhammad described this process and I have been using it ever since.

 

[IslandTractor]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

Thanks von-mil that is really helpful.

 

[DK35vince]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

"New Posts" disappear when "Mark All Read" is pressed. Makes it easy to view.
I never use "Today's Posts" but assumed they would all still show up, read or not.

+1
I always use "new posts"
Takes me right to the posts I have not read and where I left off.
I rarely use "todays posts", much more difficult to fumble through what I have or have not already read IMO. I only use it if I accidently hit the Mark as read button to soon and lose my place

 

[IslandTractor]

Re: What's the difference between "Today's Posts" and "New Posts"?????

The reason I don't use "new posts" is that there are too many posts that are simply of no interest to me. I don't generally want to read about Jinma tractors or Farmall Vintage Tractors, indeed I don't believe I've ever read anything from either of those subforums. I also don't need to read every rehash of "what oil is best?".

It would be more useful to have the ability to have posts on topics I am interested in be brought to my attention the same way you can be alerted to something with a standing search in some Craigslist apps. If a new post appears anywhere on TBN with the word "grapple" or "backhoe" I would find that more useful.

The screening method von-mil described could certainly be useful but it would be even better if topics that TBN knows (just like Amazon knows) interest you were brought to your attention. Similarly it would be useful to know when someone that I often follow makes a post as I am more likely to be interested in those posts than average. Being able to quickly scan to see if K0ua or DK35vince has made a new post is more useful to me than just a list of all new posts.