display how many comments since you last opened the thread?

December 5, 2004 9:36 PM

This might be far too much work, but would it be possible to have a thread display how many comments there have been since you last opened the thread instead of comments since you last reloaded the page?
posted by drezdn to feature requests at 9:36 PM (2 comments total)

Often I'll visit Metafilter, logged in, and only check out some of the threads that I've been following. This would really help keep track of more threads.
posted by drezdn at 9:37 PM on December 5, 2004

It's a bit too much processing, since I would have to track every thread every user sees.
posted by mathowie at 10:57 PM on December 5, 2004