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drunkbnu

Formerly HG

Joined: 2017-08-16

Posts: 2,306

Read topics keep being messed up

I've been aware that each time I access the forums, I get a lot of new content, new topics to check out, but I don't check them. After some few time, they all become "read" when I never read them. This seems to be a failure of an attempt to make the read topics server-side by Different55 according to a chat-log I have, but I don't think it would be that, so I would like to know whether you have a kind of similar issue. My request for this would be a completely client-side (cookie-side) read topics system so that this doesn't mess up as right now.

hummerz5

Member

From: wait I'm not a secret mod huh

Joined: 2015-08-10

Posts: 5,854

Re: Read topics keep being messed up

Well, this has already been mentioned in a somewhat recent topic... so
This is where I say "But I like how that works it's useful"
then someone else says
"but you can just click the "forget everything" button"
then /thread

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N1KF

Wiki Mod

From: ဪဪဪဪဪ From: ဪဪဪဪဪ From: ဪဪဪဪဪ

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 11,157

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Re: Read topics keep being messed up

For some reason I could not find it even after searching but I think I made a topic suggesting the ability to be able to not have the new topics be temporary.

Different55

Forum Admin

Joined: 2015-02-07

Posts: 16,575

Re: Read topics keep being messed up

I've been aware that each time I access the forums, I get a lot of new content, new topics to check out, but I don't check them. After some few time, they all become "read" when I never read them. This seems to be a failure of an attempt to make the read topics server-side by Different55 according to a chat-log I have, but I don't think it would be that, so I would like to know whether you have a kind of similar issue. My request for this would be a completely client-side (cookie-side) read topics system so that this doesn't mess up as right now.

Nope. When I tried to make topic-read tracking server-side it totally failed and everything showed up as unread. I rolled back every change made. What you're dealing with is the totally normal behavior of vanilla FluxBB. If you go 1800 seconds (30 minutes) without the forums having heard from you, they assume you've gone away and are done with your foruming session, and updates a timestamp in the database that basically says "okay, they're done here. mark every post before this time as read".

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