but when I first came here it took me a while to realize... that there is an EASY way to keep up with NEW post.

I thought I would share since it took me over a month to figure it out... and I don't remember ever seeing a tutorial on it... I just figured it out one day.(even though ther are glitches with it every once in a while, for the most part, it's a great way to keep up)

So here goes my non-teacher description of a "how-to"... (LOL)

When you first come back to the site in the Forums section, and actually from almost any page where you first come back it will work... You will see at the top, under the advertisements, on the right side a box that says: Welcome, shawnyrvr. (in my case) You last visited: Today at 3:28am, it also shows you Private Message totals.

Anyway, right under that box is a tool bar line, that starts with USER CP... well about 1/2 way across, you will see NewPosts, and if you click that link... It will bring up every message that was posted since the last time you logged on... Sometimes I have (63 messages)2 or 3 pages worth, and sometimes only 11 messages(1 page)

It may seem so simple to most of you, and that I should have known this tip right away; but I didn't(I'm really new to the sites like this one) and it was at first overwhelming to me to keep up with the new posts(going into each forum, every time I came here) But once I discovered this I was just amazed that I could catch up in 15 mins or so...(unless it was a really Hot Thread Topic)

Anyway: I just thought I'd share this since it seemed if I'm understanding your post right that may be what's a bit hard/overwhelming to others, also...

PS Sometimes, the time gets screwed up, if I go to another part of the site first, and then it shows I was actuallly at the site only mins before so it doesn't show me the new posts, then I have to go to each individual forum, which makes me go Ughhhh!!!! (lol) so I just typically when I log on to the site go to the forums section first thing!

Hope this helps, someone else!
Shawna

Sorry, if this was too long! I can get wordy in describing stuff...