Others may have better tricks to read less well formatted forums, but one thing to try is to check the forum settings. A lot of forums have several themes or some similar term, since they don’t all use the same description. A lot of times at least one of these configurations will display topics with each individual post as a table, heading or list. For example, I am a long time member of the forum at www.blu-ray.com and there, threads display by default with each post as a table and a maximum of 40 posts per page. I find this sort of configuration to be really easy to navigate and wish that all online forums would make such a scheme either the default or at least one option. If no such convenient scheeme exists on the forum you are attempting to read, pretty much even the worst formatted forums still have a pattern to the way each post is displayed. If nothing else, each post generally begins and ends with the same number of links, things like post number, poster’s us ername and other such information and then the contents of the post followed by links like Reply or Reply with quote. If nothing else works, this is one way to move through a thread. Definitely not quick and convenient, but beats trying to page down when each post is a different length and thus may not equal the samee number of pages.
HTH, Chris From: Don Smith Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 4:11 PM To: gwinfo Subject: reading forums Hi: I think what I mean is forums but not sure. What comes up is some question and there are numverous answers from differen folk. I can read the stuff by read all or page down. However, it would be nice to read the questions and answers better. I am using windows 7 upto date and we up to date. Don s If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
