Smartphone Thoughts: Help Us Beta Test Our New Posts Feature

When we moved Smartphone Thoughts to the merged forum, a very legitimate complaint was that people interested in Smartphones were not necessarily interested in Zunes, and when they clicked New Posts to see what's new in the forums, they didn't want to see Zune-related posts. This problem obviously gets worse the more sites and forums are added into the mix. vBulletin has absolutely no solution for this problem, so we created our own.

Click here to try it. I asked Fabrizio Fiandanese, our developer, to create a system better than anything else out there, and in my opinion, he succeeded masterfully. What happens is that the new posts feature shows you only the posts from the Smartphone Thoughts forums, and it only shows you posts you haven't read before (based on the cookie we drop on your machine...I think). When you click on a new post, it opens up the post in a new tab/window, and while that's loading it also refreshes the new posts list and removes that from the list. Is that slick or what?

About the only thing I can think of that we're missing is some sort of "mark all as read" function if the remaining new posts are ones that you know you don't want to read. I'd encourage everyone to try out the new feature and let me know what you think.

UPDATE: I should mention that we don't yet have a solution in place for our mobile site, this new posts feature is only for the desktop site at the moment.