Possible issue with thread last update times and unread status
 

Hi all, I posted 2 threads recently and both of them are behaving oddly.

Neither one seems to recognize that I've read them - they both remain in bold.

And one of them is reporting that I updated it earlier today, when I haven't touched it since last night.

Any ideas?

These are the two threads:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...uspend-936123/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...pgrade-936970/

Update...

This thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...pgrade-936970/

is now reporting that I posted this morning at 4:44, and I definitely did not. Note that since no new posts exist, the incorrect time only shows up in the Slackware forum, not in the thread itself.

Should I post this to the bug reports forum?

This isn't a bug, but is due to the fact that threads with 0 replies are automatically "bumped" twice to get them more exposure.

--jeremy

That makes sense Jeremy, thank you!

However, it doesn't seem to explain why they still appear as unread to me. Some 0-reply posts get recognized as read, some don't.

For example, these ones are marked as unread, even though I have read them:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ldrmfb-937152/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...r-down-937012/

And this one is marked as read:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...orking-937241/

Thanks again.

The bump causes them to be marked as unread. We're looking into a more intuitive way to handle the auto-bump in the future.

--jeremy

Should it persistently be marked as unread after being bumped? Or should it be marked as read once it's been read again after being bumped?

Thanks again.

There's a known issue that, for some members, it will remain unread during the auto-bump period.

--jeremy

Thanks for the explanation!