Re: Viewing unread topics since their last visit
Reply #1 –
English isn't my native language (you know) but IIRC it's his or her for the gender specific variant and "their", if you don't know the gender?!?
Maybe "Viewing unread topics since my last visit"
Re: Viewing unread topics since their last visit
Reply #3 –
English isn't my native language either but I'm a teacher of it. As TE said, you can use "their" referring to a single person whose gender is not known. I think that's a text string used for Who's Online, so "my" wouldn't be a good option.
Re: Viewing unread topics since their last visit
Reply #4 –
That's a funny one really, its one of the gaps in the English language, i.e a lack of a gender generic singular pronoun.
You could do the awkward thing and use "... since he or she last ..." but that is a bit stiff, no one speaks like that.
You could also use "he" in this case, but that would probably be taken as sexist as most readers will assume he=male regardless of the sentence structure.
One could reword it like, Viewing unread topics since they last visited. This is pretty common "work around" although it is still using a plural pronoun (they) in a singular context.
So its a language deficiency, I blame the English !
Re: Viewing unread topics since their last visit
Reply #6 –
Could it not be shorter like:
"Viewing unread topics"
regards,
Maxx
Re: Viewing unread topics since their last visit
Reply #7 –
I feel it ok with current layout. May be we add a details hover text when someone moves cursor over to the " New Posts " button.
Re: Viewing unread topics since their last visit
Reply #9 –
If you make it a user option, make a permission/options to allow users to do that. I think there was a topic on SMF where Ben_S turned it off and saw much better performance. I think he also tuned his forum from 20 to 10 topics/messages per page.