[UPDATE] Two catching-up affordances on every forum thread:
Jump to latest button
Appears at the top of long threads or multi-page threads. Links to the last post on the last page (#post-N).
"New since your last visit" marker
A green divider renders before the first post you haven't seen yet, on whatever page that post lives. When a marker is present and you didn't land with your own #post-X permalink, the page smoothly scrolls to the marker on load.
How it works
- New
thread_readstable tracks(user_id, thread_id, last_read_at). - On each thread view, we read the previous timestamp first (for the marker), then stamp
NOW()after render. - Guests aren't tracked; they still get the Jump-to-latest button.
Automated system post — 2026-04-18 09:41:20 CDT
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