Unread threads that have been read!

[Guest]

I have a problem. Every time I log in and look at the boards the system is telling me that I have unread threads even though I have actually read them. It's rather annoying.

[french frank]

So, you are yourself down as the last contributor to the thread, but the thread title in What's New? is still in bold?

Sorry, scrub that - I understand what you mean now.

[french frank]

I can only say that it's fine for me: those which have had nothing added since I last looked have lost their bold (but are still in the list), those which have unread posts are still bold.

[Don Petter]

I can confirm this has just happened to me as well. It wasn't meant to be a test. I had looked at the last Shostakovich Quartet post and closed the forum window and went elsewhere. On returning and calling up the forum again I had that thread appear in bold in What's New?, but on going there I found that the last post was the one I had already seen.

In case it helps, throughout the above sequence I remained logged in, so that wasn't a factor.

[Don Petter]

Just tried it again. Just the same. All What's New? threads came up bold, including the Shostakovich one and this one, though there was in fact nothing new.

Thinking about it. Is it meant to work this way? Should What's New? bridge across sessions or not? I think it should to make sense, though now I'm not sure.

[french frank]

I'll see how I can frame a question for the vB forum. Was it formerly working properly for you, Don? Nothing has been changed to the settings.

Edit: Okay, I have found a solution (allegedly) but if I do it now everyone will be complaining instead of just you two! (That's because all threads are initially reset as 'Unread'; thereafter, the man says, it should work - it did for the enquirer). I may leave it until tonight.

[Don Petter]

I'll see how I can frame a question for the vB forum. Was it formerly working properly for you, Don? Nothing has been changed to the settings.

Hmm. Put it this way - I hadn't noticed any such anomaly before.

[french frank]

See my edit, above.

[Paul Sherratt]

It work's fine in N. Staffs ... ( hadn't even used it before, but now I'm addicted )

[french frank]

It work's fine in N. Staffs ... ( hadn't even used it before, but now I'm addicted )

Would that be N. Staff's, by any chance?

I've looked into it more now and I didn't (as in, 'haven't ever') set the option recommended because, of three, it's the most processor intensive, working on the database rather than cookies. The controls 'Help' is also suggesting it refers to the opposite situation - Unread threads being marked as Read. Soooooo ..... we shall see.

Interesting that Paul's seems to be okay, as is mine. The vB question suggested that only some of the members had the problem.

[Don Petter]

Thinking about it further, I wonder if this may have happened to me because I inadvertently clicked Mark Forums Read earlier this morning.

I find this a minor irritation, which I have not bothered posting about before. I will try to explain:

If I am on the What’s New? page, and want to go from the general to the particular and see just my subscribed threads there is no option to do this. So I have to change the page from What’s New? to Forum, and then click on the extreme right pink sub-option of Quick Links/Subscribed Threads. All well and good.

However, sometimes in the heat of the chase, because the layout looks pretty much the same at the top (I do know that the tab legends actually change from white to black), I don’t realise which page I’m on and quickly click on the extreme right pink sub-option when I'm on What's New? expecting to get my subscribed threads only to find I have clicked Mark Forums Read!

I know this is purely my fault for not looking where I click, but it might be nice to have a confirmation stage on Mark Forums Read, as this is an irreversible step.

[french frank]

Thinking about it further, I wonder if this may have happened to me because I inadvertently clicked Mark Forums Read earlier this morning.

I know, I'm a bit lackadaisical. I'm not too bothered if I miss a few posts - they'll probably turn up at a later date, probably tomorrow. So I don't subscribe to any threads. I use What's New? (which is the same as the (very) old BBC Latest Posts view). If I see something interesting, I click on it from that view. I return to it regularly and my Threads Read bold/unbold is working perfectly.

You may be trying something more nuanced which isn't currently providing what you want. I would have thought that clicking on Mark Forums Read would be causing the opposite effect from what Martin described since, as I understand it, his threads were marked Unread when he had read them, rather than the reverse.

This isn't resolved yet, but I think I'll wait to see what problems other people report before I change any settings.

[Don Petter]

ff,

Yes, I agree that marking forums read would imply the opposite of this problem. It's just that it is the only 'unusual' thing which I had done today and I thought it might just be a clue.

[Don Petter]

Perfectly normal day today (no 'wrong' clicks) but the effect is still with me. I closed the forum window, came back later, and all the threads in What's New? were bold, including three or four which, when I went to them, were showing final posts which I had seen an hour or so earlier.

[french frank]

Perfectly normal day today (no 'wrong' clicks) but the effect is still with me. I closed the forum window, came back later, and all the threads in What's New? were bold, including three or four which, when I went to them, were showing final posts which I had seen an hour or so earlier.

I suspect it might be something to do with your subscription settings. I don't mean to suggest it ought to be like that but I wonder how many people do use subscriptions. At least that would explain why there has been no flood of comments.

I wasn't wanting to stay up until midnight tonight, or I'd try altering the setting as suggested in Msg #6. Oh, well, I'll risk it now and see what happens ....

Edit: Well, it hasn't had the promised effect of returning all my threads to Unread. Dunno what it might have done for you. It might take a day to find out.