Keep Unread Posts
 

When I was using phpBB, someone had written a hack that kept posts as unread (new) until members actually marked them as read or actually read them.

This was a tremendous hack because it prevented new posts from getting automarked based on the session cookie time-out.

I have read that in VB the whos-online and the marking of threads are both tied to the same session cookie. So although you could change the time to expire on the cookie to something like 24 hours... the whosonline page would never be accurate then. So basically to fix one problem you cause another.

It would be awesome if someone could write a hack that would keep new messages as UNREAD until such time as a member actualy read them or selected a mark read link.

Anyone up for the task?

:)

I have been searching for this .... anyone can help?

This would be an entire rewirte to vBulletins current mark read system, it would be a massive hack that would probaly never be finished

Excuse the newbie question, but I've wondered why the "Who's Online" and the "Mark as read" features couldn't be tracked in two separate cookies.

There is a "hack" here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62748

Although, given some of the comments on the thread, perhaps it is not quite, uh . . . finished.