Pet peeve re the forums

Started by Greg Shaffer, 08/06/2017 04:58PM
Posted 08/06/2017 04:58PM Opening Post
A perfect example of one of the more frustrating things about the forums. Currently when I go into the forum I most participate in the new post status says there are 12 new messages. Yet when I actually go in an open the forum there are only 5 new posts to be found that actually have NEW beside them. Usually its not quite this blatantly inaccurate but is consistently inaccurate particularly regarding hot topics.

That combined with the inaccurate tracking of previously read posts ie they don't stay greyed out once read making it hard to keep your place in a conversation spread over multiple days and topics that get several pages long combined with the system not keeping the NEW flag between visits does make participating in the forums very frustrating at times.

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Posted 08/06/2017 07:14PM #1
I've actually WATCHED new posts evaporate. I believe it is when the author deletes it. May still be flagged, but has been removed. So, I imagine some falling-down-drunk astronomer blathering... and then quickly deleting it. I'm going to try that right after this one [here Tom cracks the seal on a pint of Jack Daniels] Mmmm...ok I'll enter this and then one saying "Test", which one I will immediately delete... urp ... Tom

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