On the Community Forums page, on the right hand side, there is a list of shortcuts. One of these is called 'Posts You Have Not Read'. You can set this to show all topics, or just the ones you are most interested in. You can also set it (for the current session only) to give you new posts over a certain time period, such as two months, 1 day, etc, or since you last visit. When you first click on this, a list of all posts appears, because you haven't read any of them using this filter before. I suggest, if you don't want to miss anything on this lovely website, that you click on each topic and work through them to make sure you have read them all, then use you 'back' arrow to go back to the shortcut . The topic you have just read will have dissappeared from the list. If you work through the list now, while it is so small, you will be ahead of the game. Now, next time you visit the website, click on this shortcut and you will see just a list of topics which have had posts added since you last read that topic. If you click on the topic, then press <end> on your keyboard, you will go to the last entry on that page. When the topic gets longer, there will be multiple pages, and you can navigate these in the usual way. You never need miss a post again!! ;-)
Smiles, Jan.
Teresa, what you say is true, and very good to know. If you are working from the list of topics in a group though, there is an even easier way to work through them.
In that list, the topics with the most recent posts are listed first. If you go to the first topic, and click on <Latest post> directly under the topic title, you go to the last post in that topic with only one click, which saves the loading time of opening the topic and then going to the end. When you have finished with that topic, click on the back arrow in the top left corner of your screen and you go back to the topic list, again with one click. Then you click on <Latest post> in the next topic down the list, continuing in this way until you find that you have already read the 'last post' in a topic, which means you have caught up with your reading.
The only thing you have to watch while using the list of topics in groups is that the topic doesn't disappear after you have read all its posts, as it does in the shortcut in the Community area, so you have to keep track yourself.