294413 - [RFE] Add ability to view comments made to a bug since last visit (via cookie?)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1469023

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Fleshman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

A common feature on Web forums is that the server stores (either in the database
or in a cookie, maybe both, I'm not sure which) the time you last viewed a page.
When you return, threads that have had new messages since your visit are
highlighted, as are messages within the thread.

I'd like it if Bugzilla could implement something similar, making it
bookmarkable (maybe something like show_bug.cgi?id=[whatever]&latest) so users
can easily jump to the comments that have been made since they last checked in.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Stephen Lee]

See also bug 102571 and bug 554. Combining all of these would allow a single 
query to show all new comments on all recently-visited bugs - a one-
off "comments I am likely to be interested in" query.

This would seem particularly desirable for bugs which get a LARGE number of 
comments. The huge page must take an age to load for dial-up users.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

bug 176145 does not say "highlight", but the idea is exactly the same.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176145 ***