Dick called me yestarday with an idea that I have been working on for about 3 months now. I told him such and that it is real tricky and I have not been able to pull it off yet. Upon stewing over this all evening I figured it out over a steak salad at dinner.

We now have a page that shows you all Forum messages that have been posted since your last visit. Part of the trickyness I solved by actions on your part and by faking LastVisit. There is an automatic LastVisit function in our system but it resets automatically when it reads itself. So you would get one chance to see new stuff, leave to look at one of them, and then you would be reset to now when you return to the newstuff page, and see nothing. (Does that make sense?)

So I created a step for you to reset your own LastVisit.

There is now a link at the top of the Main Forum Page, as well as other locations, that gets you to the New Messages page which is at http://www.mudcat.org/newmessages.cfm. There are buttons to reset your Last Visit to Now.

If you get an error, go to your profile and resubmit it. You need not change anything on your profile, it automatically resets your LastVisit to Now. Remember that too. So this is more like a "New Messages since you last Reset you Last Visit". Resets (as far as I can remember) happen only during membership or remembership, editing your profile, and reseting with the buttons that I set up on the New Messages page.

Also, to get this to work, I had to set all members' LastVisit to noon today (Oct 3). It will (I hope) keep track accurately from now on.

Let me know if you find any bugs in the system, for it is a new (prototype) feature. Let me know too if you find something else that resets your last visit. Also, let me know if I can improve it in anyway.

Have Fun.