morning re-set for 'last read post' in any given thread

[silverwillow]

I'm not sure I'll explain this correctly, but at Zetaboards, whenever I went to a discussion in a thread, it took me to the place/page I'd last been to (in other words, if I'd already read posts on pages one, two, and (say two posts on) three, it would open up to the first post I hadn't read on page three.   Here at PB, it does that, but each morning, it seems to re-set itself back to the original post in each thread, until one has posted anew in a thread.

That's annoying, and could be a problem with threads with multiple posts and one has been away for a few days. We'd have no way of knowing where we left off and would have to figure that out by clicking through pages, trying to remember dates and what I'd read or not. Hope this makes sense.

Is there some coding that could fix this so that for each member, it would always remember their last spot at each thread?

thanks.

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[Brian]

The "new" icon next to a thread with new posts takes you to the first unread post, while clicking on an empty space in the Last Post column takes you to the last post in the thread.

Beyond that we unfortunately don't track how many posts down you scrolled on a page or which page you were last reading, though if you didn't read up to the last page of a thread marked as new marking it as new again and clicking on the icon will take you to whichever page you did reach.

I don't think a code or plugin can achieve this, primarily due to limitations in storage and the methods required to do so without explicit user interaction violating the developer guidelines.

[silverwillow]

thank you, Brian. So that kind of renders the 'recent post' plug-in useless if this is an issue for someone, right?

Again, thanks for the answer and the rationale behind it.