Forum unread status incorrect

[drspangle]

Every time I come to the forum (logged in as myself) it shows various sections as having new replies. Except they don't, and several in fact show the last post there being my own.

Just wondering if anyone else is seeing the same issue. It's really annoying!

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Example:

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/1705/grrr.jpg

[Deviant]

happens in pretty much all forums i've been in.

i just double click the 'new post' icon to correct it.

[drspangle]

happens in pretty much all forums i've been in.

i just double click the 'new post' icon to correct it.

The ones I frequent don't seem to have the issue. And I can't always know if there is anything new or not, so just clearing it doesn't really fix the issue :(

[Deviant]

i think the problem occurs when you don't go through the correct process of clearing the thread...

e.g if you hit back instead of navigating through the site correctly. I did a quick test and it seems to work if you navigate through the site correctly so the server can actually register you have visited the thread.

[drspangle]

i think the problem occurs when you don't go through the correct process of clearing the thread...

e.g if you hit back instead of navigating through the site correctly. I did a quick test and it seems to work if you navigate through the site correctly so the server can actually register you have visited the thread.

That's a huge pain in the arse. I don't accept that im browsing the forums 'incorrectly' by using the back and forwards buttons - other vBulletin forums manage just fine.

I'm not really here to argue about it, just to report an annoying behaviour :p

[Deviant]

it happends in the vBulletin forums i use. i just use the section buttons above if i get annoyed.

[drspangle]

it happends in the vBulletin forums i use. i just use the section buttons above if i get annoyed.

You should file a bug report then :p

[Deviant]

i don't care lol, i just remember who posted last :P

[drspangle]

i don't care lol, i just remember who posted last :P

I just like things to work as they should, so I was pointing it out.

If my car says it's in neutral and I start it I don't want it lurching forward into an old lady because it was actually in gear.

yes that's right - if you don't fix the forum I'm going to drive over you :evil:

[Deviant]

But if you had it in 1st, put it in neutral and then hit that back button you would expect it to be in 1st and lurch forward after turning your car on. yes? yes :)

[drspangle]

But if you had it in 1st, put it in neutral and then hit that back button you would expect it to be in 1st and lurch forward after turning your car on. yes? yes :)

My car is stateful (Y)

[robo git]

My car is stateful (Y)So is vBulletin.

Or it tries to be anyway.

[drspangle]

Or it tries to be anyway.

Haha yeah, well that is the problem.

Imagine if you did some online banking, transferred some funds. Once complete you use your browsers back button, or just close the browser - should the transfer be reversed?

My point is that the fact that I'm viewing a thread should mark it as read. Having to 'properly' exit the thread to mark it as read makes me cry on the inside.

I won't post on this any further because I might well be alone in my views. I just wanted to raised the admin attention to the issue.

[smurff]

i have the same problem, i got in the habit of just double clicking the green thing on the left before goin to the latest reply

-smurff

[robo git]

Uh, why would you double-click anything within a web-browser?

[smurff]

coz thats what i read to make the green box gray, think if you hover over the green box it says it

-smurff

[talan]

Hmm I have never really noticed this issue or been bothered by it. Normally I just look at the time of the latest post.

[possum]

It did bother me, but now I go straight to 'New Posts" up there...

xxx Lou

[smurff]

new posts ?? weres that ?

-smurff

[possum]

Scroll up to the top, and on the grey line up there, but over that way --------->

xxx Lou

[smurff]

ooohhhh check that out :D :D

thank you Lou :F :D

-smurff