"You actually have to read part of every node's text, to see if you have already read it or not"

even you cannot keep track of nodes you've read, so how can the system? the site can know if you visited the node, but cannot know if you've read it, you can even read it, but miss a reply, next time, should it be marked read?

Colored bullets are something I think you have inside your browser; there's the visited links highliting in the browser that can tell you if you have clicked on such link before, and that's as far as computer programs can know about your reading. have you actually read the contents of the node, you have to judge that.

You can also add your custom CSS (if your browser supports it) for visited links to display them as red.

I don't know about other's opinions, but I feel it's a feature that's not worth the trouble (it needs a radical change in users database tables, not a simple patch), so I vote no.

He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Re: Visited nodes by Chady
in thread Visited nodes by bart

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