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Not to be anal or anything, but lately, I've noticed that when I return, sometimes the little fingers don't have that flashy thing behind them when there's a new post. Like I had clicked the "Mark this forum as read" link, even though I haven't been in a few days.

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

If you close your browser or disconnect from the internet, or leave it more than a certain amount of time before looking at the page again, everything that was posted before the last time you loaded a forum page gets marked as read.  Hopefully that explains it.  I prefer to Mark All Posts As Read every time I leave the forums for consistency.

I have the exact opposite problem, the topics are all always new, and after I check a board and return to the index, all of the forums appear as if they have new posts.  This wouldn't happen to be a cookie problem, would it?

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The Unoriginal White Sheet

-Master ZED

Quote (Master ZED @ 11 Apr 2003, 11:36)

I have the exact opposite problem, the topics are all always new, and after I check a board and return to the index, all of the forums appear as if they have new posts.  This wouldn't happen to be a cookie problem, would it?

Yeah, that sounds like a cookie problem. Do you stay logged in via cookies here? If not, that will cause it. If you do stay logged in via cookies, I would suggest logging out, clearing your cookies, and logging back in to see if that helps.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Yeah, try clearing your forum cookies, with the Delete All Cookies Set By This Board option at the bottom.  Hopefully that will clear it up.  This may still be a residual effect of a change to the cookie settings I made some time ago to stop problems for non-IE users - cookies which were set before that time can go strange.

If that doesn't work and you don't have too much cookie data you want to keep from other sites, try clearing them all in Internet Explorer, or clearing this site's cookies specifically, which is possible in Mozilla-based browsers and probably others.

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If you close your browser or disconnect from the internet, or leave it more than a certain amount of time before looking at the page again, everything that was posted before the last time you loaded a forum page gets marked as read.  Hopefully that explains it.  I prefer to Mark All Posts As Read every time I leave the forums for consistency.

I use the "Mark all posts as read", and I return a day or two later, and sometimes the ones posted after I log out/disconnect are marked as old

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

And then what happens when you log back in? I assume you log in, read your fill, mark posts as read, then log out. When you log back in, it should change back to the settings it was last at, with the old you marked as old still like that, and the new showing up.

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I had an old signature. Now I've changed it.

I may not be representing my question clearly, so here it is step-by-step
1. Log in
2. Read new posts
3. Click "Mark this forum as read"
4. Log out
5. Log in half to a whole day later
6. Read new posts, but some of the old posts are dated and timed after I logged out

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"I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books."
-Brad Meltzer

The forum is physically incapable of resetting the cookies on your computer unless you look at a forum page.

Here are the possible scenarios:
1. The posts are made between you marking the forum as read, and your last visit to a forum page in that session.
2. Before logging in again, you're looking at a forum page, which will reset everything as having been read, regardless of whether you logged in.
3. There is a problem with your computer, your browser, or the way it/you is/are managing cookies.
4. There is a problem with this forum software, which noone else seems to have, and for which a fix has not been released, and which we have little to no chance of tracking.

I'm betting it's one of the first three somehow.  Sorry, we've suggested everything we can.  Doesn't seem to be a problem at our end.