Apparently I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, because when looking for new posts that I'm interested in reading, I often end up reading threads with no new posts, or I find I've missed a whole series of new posts, or I spend too much time just digging about. I would appreciate an overview of the forum navigation features. Here are some things I would like to know:

1. What is an "active topic?"

2. When clicking for example "View new posts" a page appears with various symbols on the left. On the far left is something like a circle with a page in it. Sometimes the little page-like thingy is white, sometimes yellow, sometimes it is moving. What does this indicate?

3. On a list of posts such as mentioned in question 2, some posts are dark blue and some are light blue. What determines this?

4. Some folks have spoken of a feature called "mark posts as read." How does this work?

Thanks.

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a topic that is read by a lot of other people



white - you've already read everything there
yellow (or orange) - there are new posts that you haven't read
moving - active topic (see #1)



good question... don't know


if you view forum subgroups as a whole (instead of all the latest new posts), then you may see several "orange/yellow" topics that you haven't read yet. If so, then there should be a link to "mark topics read" that will flip them from yellow/orange to white

if they are all white already, then the link won't be there.

Links you've clicked vs links you haven't clicked, maybe?

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This is extremely useful. I had to ask for it, too...

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Thanks guys, the fog is lifting.

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