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#### Forum enhancement

Whenever I came to check the forum, I was frustrated by one thing - I could not see which topics have new replies to them. So, last night, I wrote a little extension for Google Chrome, that fixes it. You can download it here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dckfjmkhknpiddlfjgggllpnmlfdpgjl
What exatly does it do?
1. It shows how many new replies (if any) are there since you last read the topic: http://glitch.fczbkk.com/sshots/overview.jpg Clicking on the red indicator takes you to the first unread reply.
2. Unread replies are highlighted in the topic detail: http://glitch.fczbkk.com/sshots/highlight.jpg
3. If there are any new replies, there's a link at the top of the topic, that takes you directly there: http://glitch.fczbkk.com/sshots/jumpto.jpg
Enjoy.

Posted 12 months ago by fczbkk | Permalink

### Replies

- Looks like the right answer to this forum maze :]
  Firefox anyone?
  Posted 12 months ago by Lemo | Permalink
- nice. thank u.
  Posted 12 months ago by tiptronic | Permalink
- @Lemo: It should be no problem to port the code into Firefox. I might do it, if people are interested. At least I'll have some excercise. Haven't coded anything for Firefox in a long time.
  Posted 12 months ago by fczbkk | Permalink
- Very helpful, but it seems to have a problem with forum threads that have multiple pages. (for me at least, using Chrome in Ubuntu Linux)
  Posted 12 months ago by Hawkwell | Permalink
- thank you so much!! =)
  Posted 12 months ago by starrkittyface | Permalink
- Come on firefox users, show some interest ^^
  Posted 11 months ago by Lemo | Permalink
- I am interested!
  Posted 11 months ago by Scarlett Bearsdale | Permalink
- fczbkk, I really like your enhancement! Maybe you could add one more feature?? I now know when there are new comments on posts I have read, but for the rest of the posts there is no indication whether or not I have read them. Since I don't read every post, but rather skim through the titles and read a few that grab my interest, it would be nice to be able quickly to differentiate between a post I haven't read and one that I have but which has no new comments. Perhaps where there is now a red bar with "x new" for new comments, there could be a black bar with "0 new" on posts I have read but which have no new comments. That would be great for the way I read the forums! Either way, thanks again for your nifty tool!
  Posted 11 months ago by Hawkwell | Permalink
- @Hawkwell Thanks for the bug report. I'll try to find a workaround for multi-page threads. And thanks for the idea for indicating viewed threads with no new comments.
  Posted 11 months ago by fczbkk | Permalink
- Niiiiiice, thanks you so much :D
  +10 000 xp for you
  Posted 11 months ago by Rutger | Permalink
- I would love a version for Firefox... thank you in advance!
  Posted 11 months ago by TransplantedEntwife | Permalink
- +1 for Firefox!
  Posted 11 months ago by Pirate Apples | Permalink
- Have it loaded...thanks for the enhancement!! It works great. Wish it told me of threads that I had read that had no new comments so I could tell which threads I had read and which ones I've not opened yet. (maybe a green tab if I have read it, but no new comments?)
  I initially thought it wasn't working, but then as I thought about it, makes sense, you can't tell if I've read a thread before I loaded the tool. Look forward to seeing how much more I like it after I've used it for a while...I know I will, and thanks for the improvement/enhancement to the forum! :)
  Posted 11 months ago by ~Pink Flamingo~ | Permalink
- Hi everybody! Thank you all for your feedback.
  I have updated the extension, so that it indicates threads that you previously read, even if they have no new replies. The new indicator is green and it says "no new".
  Your extension should update automaticaly soon. Or you can update it manually right now by going to your extensions settings page (chrome://settings/extensions) and clicking on the "Update extensions now" button. Or you can re-install it from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dckfjmkhknpiddlfjgggllpnmlfdpgjl
  Posted 11 months ago by fczbkk | Permalink
- I've been using this for a few days and IT IS THE BEST DAMN THING EVER!!! Thank you soooooo much!
  Posted 11 months ago by phelps.mike | Permalink
- Wow, this is really fantastic. Thank you so much fczbkk :D It makes the forums so much clearer. Great job.
  Posted 11 months ago by Flowerry Pott | Permalink
- +1
  Posted 11 months ago by Jewel Stoned | Permalink
- Raaaahhhhhhh when is the firefox version coming?
  Please, pretty please?
  (:
  Posted 11 months ago by Lemo | Permalink
- This is really great. Many thanks!
  Posted 11 months ago by crassielassie | Permalink
- Truly awesome, and much-needed!
  --Me
  Posted 11 months ago by SchWM | Permalink
- Thanks so much for this!
  Posted 11 months ago by Abby Cadabra | Permalink