Joe,
>>If you look for the >> at the end of the dark blue bar that separates the forum sections, clicking on it will either expand or collapse the inner forums. That should be sticky for you. So, do it once, and you won't have to do it again.
Excellent!!
What I'd really prefer is to see only messages posted since my last visit with the option to open a whole thread only if I choose to.
>>That is what "Active Topics" is all about. And, you can click the drop down box with the date and time and control how far back in time you can look with Active Topics.
Not really. Active topics gives the whole thread, not just the message since my last visit. And active topics gives topics since a given date.
I want it to show only MESSAGES that I haven't yet read - and I want the ability to consider everything to date as read ONLY when I choose "mark read" If I'm not being clear, maybe we should talk on the phone. This is really a make or break issue for me.
>>I've requested a "mark all as read" feature
Great!
>>I hope that we can exceed that standard.
I hope so.
By the way, how'd you manage to put a nice grey box around your quoted sections?
Also, why doesn't ctrl-N work here? I tried to use ctrl-N so I could check the active topic area. When i came back here, the whole page had expired.
I also had trouble copying the entire message to paste to the reply box. I usually like to do that and then leave up only the parts I want. I had to keep going back and forth to copy sections.
That's enough for one visit I'm really not trying to be a pest, but I think you're onto something and I want it to be friendly enough for me to use without spending endless time.