If I understand your question, David,

The essence is, open the topic in a new tab.  To do that in Chrome, you right-click on the topic link, instead of just left-clicking on it.  This may not be the same for you, depending on what platform and browser you're using.

Blair

Scrolling

When I log in (and I have to be logged in, not just a guest), I look at "Recent posts"  If there are new posts since I last looked at it there will be a small number representing new posts under the total number of posts for each thread.  I click on that "New Posts" number and it takes me to the new posts.

Thanks for the replies. I am

Thanks for the replies. I am now in the habit of checking daily which is great.  But having just discovered this site, I am poring through from page one. There appears to be almost 1000 pages dating back to the original issues. For example if I log off after checking out 50 pages, was wondering how I can resume on page 51directly without navigating through the previous I have already seen. As I am doing it presently I can jump 10 pages at a time and wondering if there is a way to "streamline" when I am up to say 500.  Thanks again.

Ahh. Now I understand your pain. Short answer,

Yes.  Long answer, Well...  I went to page 1340.  When there, I made it a favorite.  Closed my browser, re-opened it, and clicked on the bookmark, and I was back at 1340.  So it can be done.  Now, whatever your browser is, it should have the equivalent feature.

Blair

URL fudging

David,

One other way to quickly go to a certain page (beyond bookmarking) is to directly alter the MRH URL in the URL-bar of your browser. For example:

To go directly to page 1348 you add "?page=1347" at the end of the URL. The number behind the "="-sign is always one less than the page you want to go to. This yields the following URL:

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/recent-posts?page=1347

Want to go to page 678? Add "?page=677" like so:

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/recent-posts?page=677

After you modify the URL confirm by pressing the "enter" key or "go/arrow" button, and the page will load.

Note: when a new magazine comes out you might suddenly skip one or two pages because of the sudden influx of new posts. So it's always good to check back one or two pages when starting to reread old posts. They should be easy to find because they are marked with "new" while the ones you already read aren't.

Yaaron

Has a good point, my 'bookmark' technique doesn't heal itself if you're away for a while and the number of pages of history increases.

So when you go to MRH for the first time, you'll need to take note of the number of pages available, and know how many there were before, in order to know how many to add to the bookmark's embedded page number, which isn't easy or intuitive.  Still, I can't think of another way of easing your pain.

Blair

Also ...

... if you have made a comment/reply to a post thread already in existence and want to go back to it to see if anything was added since your last addition, click on the "My recent posts" tab when viewing the Recent Posts list and you can see a list of those threads you've contributed to.

Regarding the page numbering of a thread, the first page is page 0, since the addressing of the pages is ordinal rather than cardinal.

If you wish to produce a URL of a specific comment/reply and it is other than on the first page (page 0), then you can do so by creating a URL including the comment number of that comment/reply.

Example (for this comment):

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/41515?page=0#comment-459369