Subject: Re: Favorites, unread posts view
Aguila wrote:

The previous system remembered the last post that you clicked on, which was then the first post shown before the unread posts. From there one could always hit the 'previous' link, or change a post to threaded to read back in the discussion.

I believe many people left the boards in unthreaded, and skipped through the posts one by one, or opened only the ones they found interesting or that had enough recs.

Can't speak for others, but I usually clicked on the last post on purpose to mark everything as read (or clicked on 'mark all read' on the Favourites page), to start the next session with a clean slate.

This is also how I used the old boards and I would welcome a return to this behavior: when you click on a board from Favourites and have been reading in unthreaded, it takes you to the list of posts, last unread post at the top of the list.

Another bit of navigation that I used and enjoyed on the old boards was if you were reading a board in unthreaded mode and from a post you clicked on the board name up top, it took you to the list of posts on the board with that post you were last reading at the top of the list. You could then sort the list by author name and you'd have a history of that poster's contributions to the board going forward and back in time from that post, which was again placed at the top of the list after the sort. I found that behavior very useful in locating old posts of mine or another poster.