Threads mark themselves as read

[dancj]

There's a thing that happens from time to time and seems to have got worse recently. If I pause for a little too long while reading the posts, the board seems to decide I've gone away and come back, and it displays all of the threads as having no new posts. Sometimes it just does this as soon as I log in.

Is there any way we could make the site a bit laxer in marking these posts as read? What would be great would be if this was done on an individual board basis, so that the Vertigo board won't be marked as read when I've visited the DC board etc...

Thanks

Dan

[Matt]

I don't recall seeing any options about this matter and so I can't help you from a technical standpoint.

However, changing your browsing habits may be a convenient workaround.

Whenever I browse these fine forums, I open every board I want to read in a new tab (if you don't use mozilla or firefox, it would be a new window).
I don't read any of the boards until I've opened the ones I want to look at.
Once the loading symbols have stopped I then hit the 'mark all forums read' text down the bottom of the forum index page (which I haven't actually left yet) and close that tab.
I then go through all the tabs one by one, opening any threads I want to read in more new tabs until everything is read.

I know it probably looks complicated but it really does work.

Of course I will now give you an obvious piece of advice: If you're using Internet Explorer then stop it. Switch to Firefox or Mozilla which are, by any measure at all, far superior web browsers.

[Paradox]

That happens to me all the time, but I always assumed it was just my high-speed internet connection at work losing the connection for a second and reconnecting, thereby making the boards think I'd left and come back. The "last visited" tag usually reflects that for me.

I wouldn't think there's anything CBR could do about that.

[dancj]

Whenever I browse these fine forums, I open every board I want to read in a new tab (if you don't use mozilla or firefox, it would be a new window).
I don't read any of the boards until I've opened the ones I want to look at.
Once the loading symbols have stopped I then hit the 'mark all forums read' text down the bottom of the forum index page (which I haven't actually left yet) and close that tab.
I then go through all the tabs one by one, opening any threads I want to read in more new tabs until everything is read.

I'm confused. If you mark them all as read before you go into any of the threads then surely the "go to first unread post" button won't know where to go??

BTW - I do use Firefox.

[Dizzy D]

I'm confused. If you mark them all as read before you go into any of the threads then surely the "go to first unread post" button won't know where to go??

BTW - I do use Firefox.

He opens them all before he hits the marked-as-read button.

I pretty much do the same thing. By hitting the wheel-button on your mouse in Mozilla, you can just open the thread/board you want to read in a new tab. You wheel-click on all the threads you want to read and *then* hit the marked as read button. This won't affect the tabs/windows you already have opened.

[GremlinClr]

Also for the 3 people out there reading this that use Safari it has a tabbed browsing setting as well. I got used to firefox at home at was cursing my work machine which is a mac because I didn't know about the setting. So if your new to Safari and don't know about it, check your settings.

[Matt]

He opens them all before he hits the marked-as-read button.


Yep, all the things I want to read are opened in new tabs before I hit that 'mark read' button.

[Paradox]

"Hit the mark as read" button? Um, doesn't that happen automatically when you read them?

I'm a mite confused, here.

[dancj]

I do open all of the threads on any given board in one go like you suggest, but I only do it for one board at a time. Often, they all get marked as read before I've been through all of the boards.

The 'mark as read' button is new to me too. I can't see the point when automatically happens anyway