Topic: Forum posts all being marked as read

Whenever I check the chumby.com forums, individual forums that have new threads, or new posts to old threads are highlighted, but then as soon as I've checked one of them they all get marked as read.

Am I the only one experiencing this?

Re: Forum posts all being marked as read

That does not happen for me... if it did, I'd complain too!  That's how I keep up on the latest posts on this, and a couple other forums!

Linux Guy - Occasional Chumby Hacker

Re: Forum posts all being marked as read

Yeah same; that's how I keep up to date on other forums and I thought it might be some setting that the mods/admins here decided to use. I'll have to check cookie settings and stuff as it sounds as though it could be something to do with that...

Re: Forum posts all being marked as read

Hmmm, not having any other reports of this problem.

Re: Forum posts all being marked as read

the reason for this is the global "visit timeout" setting.  if you login, read N messages, then allow your session to remain
idle for 600 seconds [10 minutes], all other messages are marked as read.

the 'solution' for this is to make sure you explicitly logout, and, in parallel, i'll see if there is an extension to the forum
s/w that makes this more configurable/user-friendly.

/mdkail

Re: Forum posts all being marked as read

That's what I suspected, but after I read the first new or updated thread, all the others get marked as read as soon as I return to the forum index.