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To: Siber who wrote (21863)	12/9/2004 2:19:19 PM
From: rkral	Respond to of 32918

Siber, re "We've all been living in the future, I guess...those of us who, in our minds, clicked on a number next to a PeopleMark and read those posts prior to the invention of the ability to do so. Damn, we're good." Have you actually counted the number of people who agree with your memory of how PeopleMarks worked on the old SI? IIRC it's you and maybe two others. Ron

To: Siber who wrote (21863)	12/9/2004 2:56:12 PM
From: SI Dave	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32918

>>How is it, then, that so many of us are asking about this feature that used to work for us and now doesn't if it never existed in the first place? Who is "so many of us" other than you and perhaps one or two other people? I'm going to take one last stab at this: Before, when you clicked the new-post number next to a PeopleMark, it took you to their oldest unread post since the time you either created the PeopleMark or caused it to be reset. That's it; from the resulting message page, you could navigate the same way as if you had arrived at it from any other means. Now, if you are a Premium subscriber, when you click on that number, it takes you to their oldest unread post just like above. That's where the similarity ends. On the resulting message page, PREVIOUS and NEXT take you backwards and forwards respectively through that user's posts in order of posting, not backwards and forwards through that thread as they normally would. That is a major departure from any capability that existed on SI before it was implemented here a few weeks ago. Bob - instead of taking the user to the "upgrade" path, perhaps that link needs to operate as before for Non-Premuim users, and with the advanced navigation for the entitled users. Alternatively, there is more than ample real estate to provide a link to both options, but that seems counter-intuitive. [1st New] [1st New+] Premies would only need the 2nd column; Non-premies would get the upgrade notice on the 2nd column. Yeah, seems like a silly approach.