I seem to lose the bold for unread threads prematurely. It might be after I post to one of them that it happens but I haven't noted the exact pattern.
Unread threads
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I seem to lose the bold for unread threads prematurely. It might be after I post to one of them that it happens but I haven't noted the exact pattern.
Are you using the same login name in the forums as you are in the main site? If they're different, that might be screwing up the cookies. Can you also let me know what browser and operating system you're running?
Thu Sep 20 2007 2:33 pm # -
Let me know if the problems continue. If they do, I'll ask around and see what I can figure out.
Thu Sep 20 2007 3:35 pm # -
My impression is that the bold appears on those threads that have posts since your last visit, but that the system does not pay attention to which ones you read. Thus if I arrive at the Discussions page, leave it, and return, it will show me any threads that are new since I arrived and left, but not those that were new the first time I arrived, as they are now counted as old. Sometimes it will not mark a new thread that appeared while I was here, because I posted something in another window, marking me as present, but that does not always happen.
Generally I open the main Discussions page and leave it open until I have dealt with all the new threads in separate windows, then reload it and check whether anyone has posted since my arrival (checking time stamps both times, in case something has been marked as old that I did not see). It's not as good as the old software (which really would keep track of what you had and had not read), but it's not worse than most forums out there, particularly the phpBB forums for which this is a notorious problem (will reset new posts to old if you don't post for a half hour or something).
So it doesn't really track unread posts, but only new posts since your last visit, from what I can tell; and it interprets "last visit" very narrowly.
--M. J. Young
Thu Sep 20 2007 6:21 pm # -
David, your posts do seem to be bumping up the threads on which they're made. Can you point to a thread to which you posted that did not get bumped up?
--M. J. Young
Sat Sep 22 2007 2:41 am # -
I'm not sure why, but it appears that a couple of your posts got marked as Spam; I'm clearing them now.
It looks like it was triggered when you posted a blank message; that alerted the software to the possibility that despite your status as member you might be a bot testing the system, and it flagged additional posts by you, but only on that thread. I've deleted the empty post and moderated the others as not Spam; that should fix it for you.
Let me know if you continue to have trouble with it.
--M. J. Young
Sat Sep 22 2007 2:49 am #
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