After clicking on What's New?

[Don Petter]

I get this all the time now. Having just returned to the forum (but not logged out) after an hour or so all of the messages I've read today, including my own, are in red. At first I thought this issue was to do with my new laptop but clearly it isn't. I'm finding it a bit annoying!

This has been happening for some weeks now, and it is a bit annoying.

I don't know how long things take to go back to red if you just move away from the window but leave it open (though I'm sure they do), but certainly if you close the window, then open the forum up again, without logging out, your status quo will have been lost.

[Serial_Apologist]

The odd thing is, sometimes the headings do change immediately, sometimes not at all, apparently. This is quite a recent phenomenon, btw.

[Petrushka]

The odd thing is, sometimes the headings do change immediately, sometimes not at all, apparently. This is quite a recent phenomenon, btw.

I almost always find it happens when I have turned off the laptop and come back again later. I never log out of the forum and, incidentally, this doesn't happen on my phone, just the laptop.

Any chance of a look at it please as it is becoming increasingly annoying (though admittedly a minor matter)?

[french frank]

What's baffling is that it happens to some people and not to others? I've just closed all the windows in my browser, reopened Firefox, and the four threads I had consulted are still pink, not red.

There have been no upgrades/updates for months to the forum software, and no changes to the settings at all.

[VodkaDilc]

Just to confirm, I read this a few minutes ago and then quite Firefox. Now I'm back, everything is red. Not really a problem, as someone has already said, but just strange. It does not happen elsewhere, where I am presented with Unread Posts. I think I'm on the latest Firefox - 23.0.1 - and I use a MacBook Pro - OS X - Version 10.6.8 - just in case any of that is relevant.

[french frank]

Just to confirm, I read this a few minutes ago and then quite Firefox. Now I'm back, everything is red. Not really a problem, as someone has already said, but just strange. It does not happen elsewhere, where I am presented with Unread Posts. I think I'm on the latest Firefox - 23.0.1 - and I use a MacBook Pro - OS X - Version 10.6.8 - just in case any of that is relevant.

A couple of experiments seems to suggest that this may be caused by using the cookie-based setting rather than the data-base - because it's less processor intensive.

Nevertheless, in any one internet session - including if you close your browser to do other things on your computer - the cookie-based setting works if you come back later on. But if you actually Quit Firefox (or whichever browser you use), rather than just closing the browser window, or shut down your computer, it doesn't.

It doesn't really bother me because you can see the timing of the last post in each thread before opening it - which should give a good clue as to whether there's anything new since you last looked.

I can only think that other forums do use the database setting, but it would make the forum even slower than it is if we used that

[Andrew Slater]

I don't know whether this helps, but I've noticed that a given post won't show as being read unless you have displayed its last page and then on going back via the browser 'back' button either refreshed the browser window or re-clicked on 'What's New' or whatever route has been used to display the messages (e.g the forum title button).

[Serial_Apologist]

The problem now seems to have corrected itself.

[VodkaDilc]

The problem now seems to have corrected itself.

Not here - though it's not a problem once you get used to it.

[french frank]

The problem now seems to have corrected itself.

This does happen A couple of days ago I logged in, clicked on What's New? and kept getting the message that there were no new posts. I then clicked on New Posts and there were any number that had been added that morning. That too sorted itself. Strange indeed are the ways of software ...

[VodkaDilc]

I get plenty of new posts, but (having quite Firefox and then returned) I'm told they have not been read by me - even if they have been. Not a problem though.

[french frank]

I've just modified the thread title because S_A meant What's New? rather than New Posts - these are two separate buttons which may or may not behave in the same way on every occasion..