Classified Ads: "new" should be "new to me"

[mark 107]

Right now, a "new" classified ad is one recently posted. To find out if there are listings I haven't seen before, I have to choose a category.

Could the "new" tag be changed so it's more like the unread thread count on the forums: to show only if there are new ads added since the last time I checked a category?

Example:
-- old way. Click classifieds, see all categories. "Reserve canopies" shows "new." Click "Reserve canopies." Nope, still shows same ads from yesterday.

-- proposed way. Click classifieds, see all categories. "Reserve canopies" has no listings added since I checked yesterday. "New" does not show. I save a click and page view; when I save enough clicks and page views, I have time to make an extra jump.

Mark

[PhreeZone 20]

I like it, would you also want to have some sort of time limit on it? Clearly if you don't go into jump suits there is no way that it could mark it as read... but do you want to still have jumpsuits marked as New to Me that have been there for 3 months?

I think that something like you are talking about and a threshold like 5 days would be good. Only mark ads as new to me if they have been posted in the last 5 days and I have'nt looked at them.

Something like that?

Yesterday is history
And tomorrow is a mystery

Parachutemanuals.com

[bch7773 0]

i'd go for a week or two, since skydiving gear sometimes takes a while to sell, but i like the idea.

MB 3528, RB 1182

[mark 107]

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[W]ould you also want to have some sort of time limit on it? Clearly if you don't go into jumpsuits there is no way that it could mark it as read... but do you want to still have jumpsuits [as a category] marked as New to Me that have been there for 3 months?

Just to be clear, I am suggesting a change to the topmost classified page (http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/page.cgi?d=1), the one that lists the different classified ad categories, starting with AADs and Aircraft, ending with Videos and Wingsuits.

I think the pages listing the ad summaries in each category are fine. For example, this is okay: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/page.cgi?g=Jumpsuits%2Findex.html&d=1.

I don't think a time limit is necessary. If I haven't checked jumpsuits for several months, they're all new to me! And the ads are already sorted by date.

By analogy: it's been a while since I visited the CRW forum, so my topmost forum view shows quite a few unread CRW threads. If I check the forum, the threads will be sorted by date of most recent post, I can choose how stale a thread I want to go back to, and when I return to the topmost forum view, the unread thread count is reset to zero.

Thanks,
Mark