Thread/Forum Read Marking

Originally Posted by vharishankar Go down to the bottom of the forum view on the main forum screen and click "mark forums read" which appears just below the list of forums. This will clear all posts as "read".

The link is also in the "Quick Links" in the top nav bar.

--jeremy

Originally Posted by jeremy You'll need to click "Mark Forums Read" moving forward, they will not automatically be marked as read as they were using the old system. --jeremy

I had already done that, I think I had mentioned that in a previous post.

Originally Posted by jeremy Is anyone else able to reproduce this? --jeremy

It happens to me on a number of threads, ones that have been auto-bumped.

I dont think the all threads read after 900 seconds is a good idea. I can see two situations.
a) It is lunch hour and I get called by a peer to join them for lunch. I am distracted and fail to log out.

900 seconds is 15 minutes, just the time it takes me to take my coffee break and the washroom.
I suppose I should not forget to leave the current page if I have to take a quick break.

Originally Posted by MTK358 Anyway, I'm very glad about this change, because the unread subscribed threads feature in My LQ actually works now!

Everything I've tried since the change seems to work much more sensibly now. Assuming nothing breaks, I'd like to keep it this way.

I observed that when that zero reply thread received a reply and I clicked it, it vanished off my usercp.

Originally Posted by jeremy Is anyone else able to reproduce this? --jeremy

Yes, I had the same thing yesterday. It was a thread in the Puppy Linux forum: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ectful-915538/

It never gets marked as read in spite of my reading it.

Originally Posted by Lsatenstein I dont think the all threads read after 900 seconds is a good idea. I can see two situations. a) It is lunch hour and I get called by a peer to join them for lunch. I am distracted and fail to log out. 900 seconds is 15 minutes, just the time it takes me to take my coffee break and the washroom. I suppose I should not forget to leave the current page if I have to take a quick break.

Again, the 15 minute limit was part of the old system, and doesn't exist in the new system.

I use subscribed threads a lot. Besides the annoyance of all of my read marked threads being marked unread (not all but more like the past 30 or so and that's expected since you flipped the switch) it is a bit of a drag that threads which have zero replies won't disappear from my subscribed threads.

They're showing up as read even though I have already read them. I subscribed to them because I'm interested to see what other people say before I contribute (I do that often). Just FYI.

SAM

I'm looking forward to the seeing how the changes work. I admit to being occasionally frustrated up to now.

But after reading this thread, I'm still a bit confused. Is the basic behavior unchanged? When I first visit (after some period), then all threads that have had activity during my absence will be marked as unread, right?

Then, if I remain inactive for 900s, then everything will be marked as read again?

Finally, this only applies to the last two weeks' worth of activity, right?

I'm particularly confused by Jeremy's statement: "You'll need to click "Mark Forums Read" moving forward, they will not automatically be marked as read as they were using the old system." What does that mean in the context of the above, if everything reverts after 15m?

I should point out that I rely almost entirely on the "My Posts", "View Latest Posts" and/or "Zero Replies Threads" links for my navigation. Every time I visit I simply check to see if there's been any new activity, and open up new tabs for those links that look interesting. So perhaps I'm just missing something that only applies to people who use the regular forum links.

I also think 900 seconds is too short sometimes, and I often have to be very careful to mark the last "time visited" so that I know where to continue from after a long pause in activity (often due to the time it takes to compose a reply).


At the very least I'd like to request (if it's possible) that threads where you've already posted replies be set to unread indefinitely upon new activity. There are many times when I've totally missed new posts in threads I'm participating in because they changed back to "read" when I wasn't looking. It seems to me that they should not be counted as visited again until you've actually visited them, or at least deliberately marked them.

Finally, if I did want to manually mark as read all threads in the My Posts/Latest Posts/Zero Replies pages, how would I go about it? Is there any provision for that? I can't find any clear mechanism for it off-hand.

Originally Posted by David the H. I'm looking forward to the seeing how the changes work. I admit to being occasionally frustrated up to now.

I'm very frustrated now, I come back on after going to bed and waking up about 8 hours later and I have 8 pages of thread to look at yet only 4 are things I haven't already had the opportunity to see because they have new posts in them. I will click "mark all as read" once more to see if that helps but going by previous experience it wont.

OK, I clicked on the "Mark Forums Read" quick link, and sure enough, when I enter any forum all the threads appear as read. But, when I go to the "View Latest Threads" quick link, only the threads I've actually read have their subjects un-bolded. Clicking on a "Go to first new post" icon does take me to the appropriate point in the thread (first unread post if there is one, beginning of thread otherwise).

Same ol same ol, mark as read come back after being at work all day and there are threads in my list that "have not been updated since your last visit but still contain unread posts". Sorry but I found the old way easier.

Originally Posted by rknichols OK, I clicked on the "Mark Forums Read" quick link, and sure enough, when I enter any forum all the threads appear as read. But, when I go to the "View Latest Threads" quick link, only the threads I've actually read have their subjects un-bolded. Clicking on a "Go to first new post" icon does take me to the appropriate point in the thread (first unread post if there is one, beginning of thread otherwise).

I am not able to reproduce this in any way. If you click "View New Posts" immediately after clicking "Mark Forums Read" you should see "Sorry, there are no new threads to view." This very reproducibly happens for me. Anything else would be a bug (unless you see one or two threads, which means someone actually did post between clicks).

--jeremy

Just a post here to say that the new system works without any problems for me and that I like it much more than the old system.