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leroy00
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On Tuesday evening, I used the "mark all posts read" option on the forum main screen to, well, mark all the posts as read. This morning I visited the forum and was somewhat surprised to find no new posts (that is, all folders beige). Checking the lastest post date fields for the boards showed, however, that there were indeed new posts. After two hours I returned (thinking maybe the function would be reset after a new visit), but posts made between the two visits also failed to flag folders. The "mark all posts read" options in the individual boards don't show this behaviour.

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Edit: It seems that the record of posts read is gone, too, for example I start on page one of every thread, even if I was on a different page. Which let me think something might have happend to my drod.net cookie and the timing was just coincidence, but I didn't have to log myself in, so that seems unlikely. Or is someone playing with the forum again? ;)

[Edited by leroy00 on 02-26-2004 at 10:03 AM GMT]

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02-26-2004 at 09:29 AM
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There's a very rare bug that sometimes deletes a person's row in the unread posts table. If your row is gone, then it doesn't get added to when new posts are made. I made a tool in the admin panel to check for this and reinstate missing rows - I just ran it and yours was indeed missing. So this post should be red for you.

I should probably just remove the unread posts table and merge it into the user table. I didn't do that originally because I was tracking posts differently, and it wouldn't have worked.

As for starting on the first page of every thread, that's what's supposed to happen - it only starts on other pages if you have unread posts in that thread.


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02-26-2004 at 12:37 PM
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Thanks for the fix and the clarification, Schik! It's back to normal.

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02-27-2004 at 07:38 AM
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