Reading new posts without reading the entire thread again

[stanthedevil]

Near the top of the screen on the left hand side, there is a salutation "Hello username".

Underneath is the option: "Show unread posts since last visit."

If you click on that link it will take you to a list of threads with new replies.

Near the middle of each line there is a box that says "New".  If you click on the box, it will take you to the unread posts in each thread.

[T'Mar of Vulcan]

It seems weird to me that the posts aren't numbered. How does a person know how 'far' they are in a discussion, if there's no way to know what number each post is in a discussion? Is there no way to increase the number of posts per page? Because I'm on dial-up, I try to download an entire discussion and then log off to read it so I don't waste money (we pay per second here). But if I don't know how many posts there are, sometimes I get to the bottom, then notice there are more posts, then I have to log back on again...