Suggesting a previous/next topic button

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Ah, that is very true. This suggestion has come up before - let me see if I can find the previous discussions…

A quick search came up with this:

Keyboard shortcut and link to go straight to next new topic?

On my forum, we have categories in which everyone is required to read every topic. I’ve been exploring the NEW and “Consider topics new when you haven’t viewed them yet” setting which seems to meet this requirement. However, the process of reading through the list of new topics is cumbersome, especially when there are alot of them to go through. You have to go to NEW, click on a topic and read through it, go back to NEW and click on the next topic, and so on. To speed this up, I suggest adding …

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Previous/next topic

I have a bit of an odd request: one of my team members would like to see a previous/next topic (sic!) buttons somewhere (and possibly, keyboard shortcuts, too). This partially comes from my attempts to create gallery-like topics (where it really makes sense, if you want to browse through the pictures), and from the fact that other forum software also has it (that’s the weaker argument, I know…). I know that chances are small to include this in the main code, but if anyone could give me a little…