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[Erica]

What happened to the red "new" signs next to the topics with new posts in the "show topics" page? It only appears when you first download the page. Once you go back to the show topics page after having left it once, the new tags are no longer there. I am sad. I liked that because it indicated to me which topics had new posts. I preferred that over the show new posts button. Can you make it come back, Age?

[CowbellGuy]

I didn't change anything. Still works here.

[Al DeFlorio]

Mine works as Erica describes.

[CowbellGuy]

Try clicking "Mark All Read" on the main page once in a while.

[ugarte]

i sometimes lose the "new" designation on the main page on all threads older than a thread that I have checked.  "Show New Posts" keeps accurate info on what I have seen, though.

[jeh25]

Same here. just forgot to say anything...

[pfibiger]

Yeah, I'm having this problem too..it's new, although it could be related to my switch to moz 1.1 from IE6.

I come to the site, all threads w/ new posts are shown w/ the 'new' flag. Once I visit one of those threads, all the rest of the new flags on the topics page is gone...however, if I go into one of the threads, individual posts still have new flags. I have used 'mark all read' a few times, which doesn't seem to do anything.

 Phil

[Erica]

all "mark all read" does is exactly that. It marks everything as if it's been read already, in which case all the new tags disappear. I was always bewildered by that. It does that to me even if I haven't read them all. Weird...

[Erica]

Ya musta done something. Because now it seems to work again. ::nut::

d'oh. I take that back.

[cquinn]

Same here.  The new tags are disappearing on unread threads.  They sometimes still stick around even after I've read them, too, but not as often as before.

[jason]

Add me to th list of those suffering from the mysterious disappearing "new"'s problem.

[CowbellGuy]

The thing is, if you click "Mark all read" the database just gets the newest message and knows all previous messages have been read. Otherwise, it actually stores the numbers of each individual messsage you've read. Eventually that list could get pretty large and might cause problems. Haven't confirmed that, but it's a possibility. Anyway, I undid the thing I did for the last problem with messages showing up as new after they'd been read. I don't know if that's what caused this problem. Let me know.

EDIT: That just reintroduced the old problem and did nothing to fix this one. Guess I'll keep poking.

[nshapiro]

Try reading the threads "bottom up" - starting with the oldest thread that has a new tag.  This seems to prevent the undesirable removal of the new tag from unread threads.

[Al DeFlorio]

Exactly right.  This is a "bottoms-up" system.

[CowbellGuy]

Well, it shouldn't have to be that way. There's a problem, but I haven't had time to ferret it out yet