Reading new post...
 

A member asked me this so Im asking yall......

I love the Search New Posts feature of the home page here, and I use it all the time, but I have a problem with one aspect of it: after what seems like a very short time (~10 minutes or so), all unread posts are automatically marked as read. This happens every time I visit the site, and it goes something like this:

Open site
Note there are 150+ new posts (typical Monday AM thing)
Click New Posts button, start working through new posts
Type up responses to maybe 2 posts, nowhere near through new posts list
Back to Home page - new post count now zero

Is there some way to set a configuration or option to this site such that all threads with unread posts would remain marked unread until you either open them or click a "Mark all posts read" button? I try to keep up with the conversations here, but this "feature" makes it damn difficult if I've been away for any length of time.

You can use the backbutton instead of hitting new posts again.

I beleive the new posts is only from your last visit, or from last clicking of the New Posts button ;)

Use the database marking system, not the cookie based system.

that's odd, must be something in your configureation/vB options...
our 'new posts' stay new until you read them... even if you log out and log back in days later, they are in a section entitled something to the effect that these posts aren't new but remain unread, or something like that, BELOW the newest new posts.