forum navigation question

anomie · Post by **anomie** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:40 pm

Hi,
Been away about a week and want to know the easiest method to catch up on reading several forum topics.
I typically click a topic title, then scroll to the bottom of the discussion to view the latest comments.
Is there an easier way to read the most current comments on a discussion thread? It takes lots of scrolling to catch up on the different discussion threads that I want to follow.
Thank you for any pointers.

Post by **jacob** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:42 pm

An RSS subscription.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/EarlyRetire ... remeForums

dragoncar · Post by **dragoncar** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:10 am

Or hit CTRL-End to automatically go to the bottom of the page

mfi · Post by **mfi** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:47 am

Or click on freshness (hours/days) instead of topic in order to get to the latest comment for that particular topic without any scrolling.

m741 · Post by **m741** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:12 am

Maybe this isn't the right place for requests, but Jacob - I'd like a way to navigate to the last page for a topic directly from the main forum topic listing. Usually forums do something like "1, 2 ... 5, 6" right next to the topic name.

dragoncar · Post by **dragoncar** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:57 am

Seems like the freshness trick works for m741's request... didn't notice that, thanks mfi.

anomie · Post by **anomie** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:24 pm

3 great suggestions. Thank you all for the replies!

m741 · Post by **m741** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:36 am

@mfi - damn, good catch. Never noticed that.

anomie · Post by **anomie** » Sat May 04, 2013 3:33 pm

Excited to share an RSS method of reading forum posts I just learned:
Feedly.com , recently popularized as a Google Reader successor. ( This applies to Google Reader as well. )
Add a forum RSS feed to your reader.
a. Set the feed or category to "Oldest First"

b. Responds to J-key and K-key Google+ type controls..

- J key to advance to next post

- K key to go to previous
boom, now can crank thru entire forum posts in the order they were written.
hth someone.