Please take my apology for coming up with this again, but I'm really a bit confused now... :-) A long time ago, "Mark All Read" used to store the time stamp of the exact moment when it was pressed - and that caused a problem I complained about. It meant that if you took an awful long time reading multiple pages of threads until the last one, you were losing all new entries and replies that were posted after you started reading, but before you hit "Mark All Read". Conseqently, hitting "Mark All Read" always resulted in "0" new posts immediately afterwards. Then one day I asked about it, and suggested to store the exact time when you start reading, and use that time stamp when you "Mark All Read". Soon afterwards, rcook told that it was added to the board software, and - hurray! - hitting "Mark All Read" often resulted in a couple of new posts immediately afterwards. However, I've been just off home for two weeks and found nothing less than 740 new posts in the Poser Forum. I rushed through it in about half an hour, hit "Mark All Read" and... "0" posts! Then I hit "Archive" and found several posts and replies that were definitely added after I started reading. So what's wrong - is it a possible bug in the software, or was this great feature removed again? Any chance to get it back?

I said it was added to our todo list. It has not yet been implemented. Russell

Really? It was exactly the time when suddenly "Mark All Read" started to "leave" about 1-3 messages. Why does this happen? Does it mean that up to 3 people post exactly in the very second when I hit the button?

Wait... I think I got it... The "Mark All Read" link does contain a sort of time stamp (it is shown by my browser), but I guess it is calculated for each page and not "copied" to the next page. If I spend a long time with the first page and then press it, there is a chance that some new posts were in between that are shown afterwards - but if I check all pages until the last one, this will rarely happen because I spend only little time on the last page. If this is true, then the best strategy would be: - open the first page - open a new window for the second page - view all pages in the second window, leave the first window/page alone - view further pages in the second window - close the second window after the final page - hit "Mark All Read" in the first window/page This way it uses the old time stamp of my initial entrance. Right?

When I use Mark All Read and return to the Forums page, if I've made any posts, the number of them always shows up, along with any other new additions. I don't usually have more than one forum page to go through, however, so maybe that's why I haven't seen it do what Martin described. And hey, how do you go through 740 new posts in a half hour??? lol, that's quick! :)

I didn't say I was actually reading all of them... :-) I'm quite sure now that my guess is right. Let's say you enter the first page at 10am and read until 10:15. If you "Mark All Read" you will see all new posts between 10 - 10:15. If you replied/posted while this page was visible, your own submission clearly falls in this same period. However, if you hit "Next" at 10:15, then your second page gets "10:15" as a new beginning, and if you hit "Mark All Read" at 10:30 from the second page, you will see the new bits between 10:15 - 10:30, but you will miss the ones between 10 - 10:15. That's why it might be a good idea to leave the first page open (and untouched) and browse the rest in a separate window. Let's say you enter page umpfteen at 12:30 and read until 12:35. If you hit "Mark All Read" there, you would only save the bits between 12:30 - 12:35 but miss 10 - 12:30, but if you do it in the first page/window, it should still use "10am" and you should see everything between 10 - 12:35 as "new". Confusing, eh!? :-)

It actually makes sense to me, but I'm not sure exactly how the script is set up. But I think that next time, I'll use a new window when opening an "umpfteenth" Next. :)