Only just found 'View First Unread' button...

[Terry S]

I find it hard to believe, but having been a member of this site since December 2011, it was only about a week ago that I discovered the 'View First Unread' button. For anyone else not aware of it, it is at the top left at the very start of any comments and literally takes you to the 'First Unread' message on a post. Simple eh?!?

I know, I mean how could I have missed it all these years, in which I have scrolled down upteen pages to get to other pages that I have not yet read, bypassing the ones that I have?

It's a bit like the 'prt sc' (print screen) button on a computer keyboard. It was ages before someone pointed that out to me as a way of doing something I had been puzzling over how to do easily for ages.

I now search the screen of many a site, wondering what other little wonders I have overlooked for years.

Am I the only one to have taken this ridiculous amount of time to find this and other short cuts?

Soothe my conscience please... anyone... just to make me realise I am / was not the only one, LOL.

Terry S

[MartyNL]

This should make you feel a lot better Terry;
I have no idea what you're talking about!

[Mike O'Pray]

I had never noticed this either and therefore have never used it.

How do these infernal machines know which posts you have read?

I am checking behind every book on my shelves. There has to be a bug there which sees what I do on the computer.

I have gone down the list of all those people in "Spooks" to look for familiar faces. I suspect the so-called British Gas guy who tried to explain the Green Deal to me and thereby temporarily traumatised me

Mike

[Richard Gould]

I had no idea that there was such a button until I read your post, found it now
Richard

[RichardWarom]

Originally Posted by Richard Gould

I had no idea that there was such a button until I read your post, found it now
Richard

Same here.
Richard

[Terry S]

Originally Posted by MartyNL

This should make you feel a lot better Terry;
I have no idea what you're talking about!

Just for you MartyNL, I have attached a picture of what we are talking about. As said, it can be found top leftish, directly above where text on each forum starts.

I am also glad that I'm not the only to have missed it and maybe one of the moderators can confirm how long it's been there? Maybe it's a recent addition and we haven't overlooked it for as long as we might think? (Just hoping a little bit there...)

Out of interest, I'm going to post the same question on the other forum I use, as they too have this link.

Terry S

[Tony Marlow]

I have been using this button since the forum started and there is a similar button on APUG, go to first unread.

Tony

[Bill]

It was there when I joined in 2008 so I would say it has always been there.

Bill

[MartyNL]

Originally Posted by Terry S

Just for you MartyNL, I have attached a picture of what we are talking about. As said, it can be found top leftish, directly above where text on each forum starts.

I am also glad that I'm not the only to have missed it and maybe one of the moderators can confirm how long it's been there? Maybe it's a recent addition and we haven't overlooked it for as long as we might think? (Just hoping a little bit there...)

Out of interest, I'm going to post the same question on the other forum I use, as they too have this link.

Terry S

Thanks Terry.

Bizarre how we don't notice these things.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by MartyNL

Bizarre how we don't notice these things.

Especially when you think we are photographers and supposed to be observant and notice things...............

Bill