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Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
 
Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by ChrisB at 17:06, 3rd February 2026
 
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Quote from: ChrisB on Today at 09:38:00
Subscribe to each thread of interest & providing you then read the new posts, you will get an email alert each time the thread is added to. No need to keep looking as the emails have a link to the unread posts

err. Nope.
No email alerts here.
Chrome desktop and gmail for forum.
Also set to the home/landing page, and click through from there as required.{

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by GBM at 15:02, 3rd February 2026
 
Subscribe to each thread of interest & providing you then read the new posts, you will get an email alert each time the thread is added to. No need to keep looking as the emails have a link to the unread posts
err. Nope.
No email alerts here.
Chrome desktop and gmail for forum.
Also set to the home/landing page, and click through from there as required.

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by Hafren at 14:57, 3rd February 2026
 
My browser on Windoze 'knows' if I start typing 'fir' in the address bar that I want the 'show unread' posts page...

But if I'm on my phone I just end up on the firstgreatwestern.info landing page (I think), and from there tap through to the forum. Initially it thinks I'm a guest, but if I click through to a recently liked subject, it suddenly remembers me!

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by Witham Bobby at 13:07, 3rd February 2026
 
Unread Posts is always my starting point

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by johnneyw at 12:28, 3rd February 2026
 
I just go to the Coffee Shop Index page out of habit really.

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by ChrisB at 09:38, 3rd February 2026
 
Subscribe to each thread of interest & providing you then read the new posts, you will get an email alert each time the thread is added to. No need to keep looking as the emails have a link to the unread posts

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by bradshaw at 22:04, 2nd February 2026
 
Also start with unread posts

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 21:57, 2nd February 2026
 
I, too, go straight to 'show unread posts since last visit'.  I can then start reading them with the oldest first, or I can select any of them to read first, if they look particularly significant to me.

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by grahame at 21:32, 2nd February 2026
 
Really useful thread - thank you.

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by Timmer at 21:24, 2nd February 2026
 
‘Show unread posts since last visit’ and that is my bookmark for the forum using Safari.

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by Surrey 455 at 20:22, 2nd February 2026
 
I have bookmarked "Show unread posts since last visit." But Edge normally gives me an error message about HTTPS, I then click to continue and am told there are no unread posts.

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by eXPassenger at 17:13, 2nd February 2026
 
I go into the listing of the subgroups and open each one in turn that has a 'New' indicator.  I then open the topics that have new items.

Re: Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by eightonedee at 13:37, 2nd February 2026
 
Mine is "unread posts since your last visit". This gives the posts "in line" under the relevant topic/thread, which can be helpful if there's been a number of posts on it recently.

A "thank you" for things being set up to accommodate different approaches.

Using the Coffeeshop forums: a question
Posted by Mark A at 12:45, 2nd February 2026
 
The question: when you visit the forums here, what's your preferred point of entry to them?

(Me, if the site doesn't open on the 'Recent posts' page, I head for that.)

Mark

 
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