Brethren,

Every time I am trying to follow a thread with a "high traffic discussion", I feel the lack of a specific feature. Wouldn't it be nice to have those nodes that appear as "new" in Recently Active Threads (and Newest Nodes respectively) to be somehow visually marked? This would really help when trying to quickly scan the new nodes for something interesting.

So far your only choices are to open the OP, read over the replies and mentally parse "did I already read that?", or to open the new nodes one after another.

Both ways can be really inconvinient, with the level of inconvinience rising by the amount of "traffic".

The issue could be easily solved by adding some extra CSS - classes for those nodes that are younger than the users "last checked" timestamp (which is already there). So for new nodes we'd have the classes 'reply-new' and 'reply-body-new' instead of 'reply' and 'reply-body'. I'm not a devil and cannot estimate the amount of work, but from the guts I'd say it cannot be that much.

What do you think?

Update:
This node is now somewhat obsolete because the requested functionality already exists! Kudos to eric256 for pointing that out.


holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to Extra CSS for "new nodes" when viewing a thread by holli

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