The Multiply Blog

Last fall, we unveiled a new option allowing you to easily display only unread posts on your message board. We demonstrated some great ways to use this, along with message board filters, to pare down your message board to precisely the posts that are important to you right now, whether it be a view of posts in your network, your groups, or a combination or subset thereof.

This feature helps make sure you never miss a post from the people who matter most. It certainly seems worth revisiting; even we find it useful for keeping up to date with the most important posts in our personal networks.

"But I never miss posts!" you retort.

Are you sure? If you have high-volume groups appear on your message board, or always keep your proximity setting on "Medium" or "Distant" Network, posts from the people who matter to you may be slipping past you, unnoticed. And what about cases where you read posts, but forget to keep up with comments left later in response? Even with "What You've Missed" e-mail reports, it's conceivable that something may occasionally go unnoticed.

So why not give this filter (unread posts from your contacts) a try? Click here to have a quick look at what the filter shows for your account, or to set this filter manually (and perhaps save it for later use), click "Customize" on your message board and enter...

	People in your Network	Groups you are in	Specific Individuals	Filter by Type	Show only unread
Unread from Contacts	Contacts	None	[None]	All Posts	[Checked]

And there you have it, what you've been missing.
Or not, as it may be. (In which case, congratulations! :-)