Colour Coding

[David Mc]

It's probably obvious but I haven't worked it out yet! When you go into one of the forum "rooms" some of the threads are marked with a blue "new" and some with a red "new". what's the difference between them?

[Mark]

bit of an HTML anomaly I'm afraid, it's probably that you've pressed the back button so the page doesn't know you've actually been to the previous page. That's a bad explanation, if you refresh the page it'll disappear.

Top tip: If you click on the red NEW, it'll take you first of the newest messages in that thread

[Huguenot]

Interesting - it doesn't seem to work that way for me.

For me it remains red until I have used it as a link to that thread at any point. e.g if I go to the thread by using 'last post' it'll remain red. However, once I have used it as a 'red' link to the earliest new post, it'll remain blue ad infinitum, or until I access using a different browser.

It doesn't operate any differently to a red one.

It seems to turn blue as a way of saying 'you have used this way of linking to the thread'...

[Keef]

Same here, even if the red New goes away after I've read a thread, the next time someone posts in that thread the New will be blue, unless I log out and back in :-S Effectively, at makes no odds.

[mockney piers]

Yes Huguenot that's pretty much it though I think this is all by design.

A red new denotes a new (to you) thread, a blue new denotes a new post on a thread you've already seen before (perhaps via the new button).

But either new should disappear once you clicked on it, unless of course you use your back button. If you click on it then the page will refresh and it will vanish.

Non?