I just click the “recent posts” button, second left on the white line under “Forums”.
This seems to give a list of everything that’s “new” and highlights those I haven’t read, and provides a sub-heading of things that have not been updated since my last visit, which just about covers all the bases.
HNY
Simon
That's one option, but you have to start from somewhere else to do that, aka the front page or any other page, what you can't do is book mark that page and then come back in an hours time, well you can, but it won't automatically update because the URL you bookmarked has snap shot and locked in that specific moment in time.
My point is there are several ways to get to the what's new page (do we need all these doors to get to the same room) but all require you to start from another page somewhere else, which means more clicking of buttons (time wasted), more than we had to before.
In your case I suspect your book mark page to access WT is the main page or any other page where you then select what's new, in my case my target page is the what's new, I know my way around WT I want to go there first.
Personally, my "view of choice" is generally
latest posts which is handily available under members on the right hand side of the screen on the new set up. It may or may not replicate the view from somewhere else, there seem to be a lot of options and clearly others do things differently - being simple I find it all a bit confusing.
Can't remember where any of it was before, along with a lot of other things
KISS!
Simon
Simon, again you're book marking a generic page, in this case the main forum front page and then clicking 'latest posts' which takes you to 'what's new' that page is not generic it's a specific page at that moment in time, check the URL and it'll have a unique number on the end.
As far as I can tell, the 'what's new' page is the only one that generates a unique URL every time you access it, therefore it cannot be book marked.
The interesting thing about your link 'latest posts' is that the URL has a /?=skip1 on the end. If you click the header 'latest' tab you don't get that additional data in the URL and hence it only shows the ten most recent posts, the skip command must bypass that which is interesting.
It kind of all looks like this, if you want to access 'what's new' and for it to actually be ""what's new"" then you have to start from somewhere else, on the old forum and many others that constantly update with use, you could book mark the green oval and not waste time starting at the blue oval to get where you wanted.
More importantly, once you're locked into the 'what's new' room you cannot update it by refreshing the page either by the refresh page button of F5 or CTRL+F5, you're stuck in that snap shot of time, the only way to refresh the page is to click the 'what's new' button at the top where it will generate the latest unique URL code.
This is the 'what's new' URL when I started this post
www.westernthunder.co.uk/whats-new/posts/3679 this is the URL 30 minutes later
www.westernthunder.co.uk/whats-new/posts/3685 it changes all the time making it impossible to book mark.