MontanaXJer

I don't know if anyone else has noticed it or not, but I have. When I stop in to the site for a few minutes during the day and check a few threads and then come back later to do some more extensive reading, I've noticed that any of the threads that I hadn't actually gone into show as being read. Is there any way to change this so that if I haven't actually "entered" a thread that it still shows as having new posts?

Kyle

Im actually not entirely sure, ill ask around and try and see what is going on. What browser are you using? It doesnt happen to me.

MontanaXJer

IE7 on a Vista. I visit a few other bulletin boards and this is the only one that it occurs on.

Kyle

Odd, I will look into it more and ask around.

MontanaXJer

Thanks. Gotta give you credit, you're very fast when it comes to replying to people's questions.

Kyle

Thanks, unfortunately this time I dont have answer but I will get the answer for you just give me a bit of time.

MontanaXJer

Just to give you an example, I just went into the Introductions part of the forum for the first time today, and this is what I see:



If you'll notice, the third thread down (Lurker) was posted in today, yet it shows as being read by me.

I see this type of thing in every portion of the forum. I have no idea why.

Any help you guys can give is much appreciated.

Kyle

Did you visit the forum after 9:50AM today?

MontanaXJer

Sure did. I don't remember the exact time, but probably around 1pm mountain time. I did not go into the Intro part at all though.

Kyle

Well that is probably the reasoning, but it does not do that for me. Again I will look into it and see what we can do.

MontanaXJer

The issue I have with it is if there is a thread that I'm following, at first glance it shows as having no new posts. If you (or anyone else) can figure it out, then great.

MontanaXJer

Here is another example. I just logged onto the site for the FIRST time today. As you can see, there are numerous thread titles that show as being posted in today, yet they show as not having any new posts.

Screen shot taken at 4:00 pm Mountain Standard Time:

Kyle

Still working the problem give me a bit more time.

MontanaXJer

No problem. Just showing you what I'm seeing on my end.

Jhickman

Montana, We have the board setup to show forum reads as part of the Inactivity/Cookie setup. So after your session has expired or you have reached 900 seconds of inactivity all threads are cleared as read. Other forums might be setup differently, but we usually do all of ours this way.

How much of an incovenience do you feel that this is? It's been this way since we started this board almost a year ago and honestly this is the first complaint we've heard about it.