Thank you Albaby for your kind words.

On TMF, if you clicked onto a particular board, it would display the various posts starting with the last post you had read on the board. If you clicked onto the board heading from your favourites (for example), it would provide a list of twenty posts - but the first post on top would always be the last post you had read.

That sounds right. The TMF board paid attention to the lost read and re-navigated based on that. That was confusing also as you had to go back to see past posts that you had missed and they wouldn't even appear on the arrival page with the last post shown alone, but we got used it to.

There isn’t a perfect way and each has pros and cons.

Regarding navigating around posts at Shrewd'm, when returning to a board it retains exactly the same navigation position (the last post number shown at the top of the list when viewing the board) that you were last at. This approach is pretty elegant as you come back just as you had left the board, so you don't any miss posts.

(If post No. 5006 was shown at the top of the list, and you leave and come back months later, you will still see post No. 5006 as the top of the list. Other new posts will later be below it, and you don’t automatically jump past them.)

That also fits the culture of the board being part news-paper, part-library, part-this-moment. There is possibly a disproportional emphasis on this-moment these days.

The way this board navigates is clean; you never miss a post as we did before (for example, before if you read just the last post - missing some earlier unread posts, and then leave, and arrive back - then the navigation location suddenly changed to only show just the post you viewed and earlier unread posts were missed. We got used to it, but that doesn’t mean it was as good as how this board works).

This board doesn’t even record which post you have read - I prefer the system to not know and like that fact also.

I wrote a similar post to this on the Berkshire board explaining the navigation last year. Since then I also added options to jump by month, year and decade also using the green buttons.

- Manlobbi