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And the four view options for threads make it even better customizable

Current View Mode is (Root and Node), switch to (Minimal Nodes), (Node Ancestors) or (Full Thread)

See Recently Active Threads Faqlet for more

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Re^3: Ability to mark specific "newest nodes" nodes as read
by Danny (Chaplain) on Mar 05, 2024 at 04:20 UTC
    Thanks for the comments. I agree that "Recent Threads" has some nice info and configurability, but for just checking if there is a new node I think I still prefer "Newest Nodes". I don't think my original suggestion is that important and I like the simplicity of "Newest Nodes" as is.
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      One thing not mentioned yet is that HTML offers this since the earliest days, and already visited links have at least another color.

      The effect is subtle², since I'm a bit color blind, but I'm pretty sure one just needs to adjust the CSS settings⁴ for "visited" (?) to change colors or other attributes.

      Dunno the right CSS code for that, but other monks and search engines might help.¹

      Disclaimer: this won't help if you use multiple browsers tho.³

      Cheers Rolf
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      ¹) "visited" it is: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:visited

      ²) and probably watered down by color settings for different creation dates.

      ³) and you'll have to open each post individually for them to be "visited"

      ⁴) in Display Settings or RAT Style Settings . Additionally Newest Nodes Settings might be of interest too.

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        "and already visited links have at least another color"
        Yeah, that's what I've been using. I just click any read node directly to mark it as visited. I guess one setting that would be nice for both Newest Nodes and Recent Threads would be the ability say "I've checked all older than [x] days old" instead of simply "I've checked all of these". I realize you can "Clear my 'last checked' time" and simply set 'Show nodes created within the past x days', but then you lose the td.reply-new css styling functionality.
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      > but for just checking if there is a new node I think I still prefer "Newest Nodes"

      Maybe try "minimal" view on RAT, to combine the benefits of both worlds

      Minimal

      This node just shows the sample set just like Newest Nodes would but with notes grouped into their sections and possibly threaded.

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