MartinC opened this issue on Oct 29, 2001 ยท 7 posts
MartinC posted Mon, 29 October 2001 at 10:40 AM
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?