Read post come back as unread
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Drifting
Joined: Apr 2011
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From: Southington CT
Read post come back as unread
I mark all post read, they go away, I then navigate somewhere else on this site, they are still gone, go to a different web site come back and they are appear as not read. This is not consistant but it happens a lot. How can I fix this ?
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CF, like many other vBulletin forums, is setup so that after X amount of minutes passed of inactivity from the account, all unread/read posts up until that point are automatically marked as read. Your last visit time/date is also updated. This is done via the database.
Manually clicking on the Mark This Forum Read feature is session based in your browser. Once the session is terminated, that information is reset.
So if you're doing something to cause the session to be deleted (such as closing a browser window) that will result in reversing the action of manually clicking on the Mark This Forum Read link, as well as any threads that you actually did read while using that session.
The only way to really mark posts as read is use the master Mark Forums Read link on the index page in the footer. That is account based. Or allow your account to become inactive.
Manually clicking on the Mark This Forum Read feature is session based in your browser. Once the session is terminated, that information is reset.
So if you're doing something to cause the session to be deleted (such as closing a browser window) that will result in reversing the action of manually clicking on the Mark This Forum Read link, as well as any threads that you actually did read while using that session.
The only way to really mark posts as read is use the master Mark Forums Read link on the index page in the footer. That is account based. Or allow your account to become inactive.
