Eblah is great.  There is one feature that I miss from my old phpBB forums.  It's "view unread".  Eblah gets close on several counts, but not quite there.  

1) The portal view shows recent topics, but includes stuff you've read.
2) The "show recent" feature is awesome, but includes stuff you've read. (I've move the "show recent" link to the top of my forums, I like it so much)
3) There is a "new" clicky at the bottom of each board.  This is perfect, except it works for a single board only.  I've been thinking about modding this, to pull in new posts for all boards.  But it looks to be difficult.  

It would be awesome if p9.8 included this. Keep up the hard work.  

It's something that I think is on my list, but has been on it for quite some time now.  

Please don't even think about ever altering the 'Recent posts' feature of E-Blah, it's one of the outstanding features, especially compared to phpBB.

I am repeatedly frustrated by its 'view unread' option. Not, I hasten to add, because it isn't good, I agree that it's very good, very good even (so adding it would actually be nice), but the problem comes if you happen to drop out of the forum for any reason - either finger trouble, or a network drop.

When you log back in, there are no recent posts to be seen because it thinks your're starting a new visit, even though you only left seconds ago. Pity they can't give 5 minutes grace or something.

Some local forums I'm in are very busy, and there can be dozens of posting in a few hours, and there's no way to recover recent posts (unless someone knows and will tell). phpBB's search is particularly weak, and none of the usual tricks to recover them using it work. They do in E-Blah, and it doesn't need them

Yeah, that's what I hate about phpBB too.  I used to go to one ... no one else had the problem but me.  Probably because I'm the only one who multitasks.  E-Blah does the new posts entirely diffrently though.  You've got to actually mark them read.

I have something that does this on one of my my test sites, http://www.pchelp4free.myby.co.uk/forum/Blah.pl
username: test
password: test

It works but I'm sure Justin could clean up the code a bit  

It's on 9.6 but should work with 9.7

That's not what he wants, I don't believe.  I'll probably add the feature one day [as an extention of search, of course].

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3) There is a "new" clicky at the bottom of each board.  This is perfect, except it works for a single board only.  I've been thinking about modding this, to pull in new posts for all boards.  But it looks to be difficult.  

I know he probably means open a new page that only contained boards with unread posts, i've seen it on other boards, "Unread posts since last visit" but this is pretty close as once selected it will only show unread posts on all boards until they select the View All option.  It basically sets $settings[33] to "1" without out having to go through the Member Center everytime.

Would probably look better as a button with your dropdown like the Quick Edit.

I personally like the feature and use it on my main site and actually prefer it this way as it shows all unread posts in their relevant boards instead of just listing them all.

Yeah, it's not a bad thing to do.  You could use some AJAX and do it on the spot without refreshing.  

I also like the feature like in cutecast: The icon to show that there are new threads is a link to the oldest post which is new for yourself. I.e. if there are 4 new posts since you last read the thread, the link will jump to the first one of this 4. Very comfortable.

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I also like the feature like in cutecast: The icon to show that there are new threads is a link to the oldest post which is new for yourself. I.e. if there are 4 new posts since you last read the thread, the link will jump to the first one of this 4. Very comfortable.

Eblah does this already.

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Eblah does this already.

Yes it does but you have to select for each individual board or keep going to the Member Center and check/un-check New Posts Only

It's not the cleanest of solutions but what I wrote selects/de-selects unread messages for all boards from the Board Index.

I'm going to try and re-write it with ajax

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Eblah does this already.

How? Where?

What I mean ist, that if you see that nice little "new posts" icon: you can click on it and it takes you to the oldest post in the thread which is new to you. Or something similar. I've only found a setting to hide old threads.

Take a look at the screen shot.  That is what I am talking about.  If you click on the link, it takes you to where you stopped reading in that thread.

That has never worked for me, it is usualy only one post out but some times it is way off.

An example that happened today on http://www.eblah.com/forum/m-1139880547/s-new/

The last message you viewed in this thread was reply number 13.  on clicking the link I was taken to Sudridersdudes last post, I hadn't read this thread for sometime and definately not Scudriderdudes post. Also, the board indicated that there are unread messages in the thread.

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Take a look at the screen shot.  That is what I am talking about.  If you click on the link, it takes you to where you stopped reading in that thread.

Oh. I've already seen this on my board once a while. But that won't show up often. After clicking a thread with a new post from it looks like this:


A clickable icon on the thread overview would be really great.