Once the list is cleaned up I kind of like it; specially across devices. But what confuse me now is that my own postings don't appear anymore in "New Posts" and "User CP".
You'll want to mark all threads read when youre done for the day. After a few days I think you'll come to like it.
I auto-subscribe to all threads I post in. So my usercp was a mess yesterday. But I just clicked on "Quick Links" at the top right and then "Mark Forums Read" and now I wouldn't have even noticed anything changed.
Reading through this thread, I'm not sure if I have the same problem as the rest of you, but since yesterday, I find that when coming back to the forum all threads are being shown as NOT read; ie every thread is as if there have been new posts since I last visited.
Being a member of other forums that do this, I had a look around the Site and at the top of the page on the "Navigation Bar" is Quick Links. If you go into that a click on Mark Forums Read, it solves the problem.
But why has this just started?
No. it wasn't a new, merged posting, I just couldn't figure out whether we were talking about the same thing.I'm not sure if your post was originally a new thread that was merged into this one
Yes, I saw that, but again, couldn't quite figure what it was trying to say. Is there now a setting in the User CP that I can choose, so that when I come back to the forum, those topics that have had replies since my last visit will be highlighted as before?See post #13.
As arn stated in that post, there are 3 selections he could have made. Yesterday he switched from choice #1 to choice #3, which is why you're just now noticing a change. It's a forum-wide change, not something an individual member can select.Yes, I saw that, but again, couldn't quite figure what it was trying to say. Is there now a setting in the User CP that I can choose, so that when I come back to the forum, those topics that have had replies since my last visit will be highlighted as before?
I've had a good look but can't see anything obvious.
As arn stated in that post, there are 3 selections he could have made. Yesterday he switched from choice #1 to choice #3, which is why you're just now noticing a change. It's a forum-wide change, not something an individual member can select.
Not a fan of this change at all. Wish I could down vote.
What don't you like about it? Anything specific?
arn
Yes. I liked being able to distinguish recent posts from old ones. A quick glance would let me know immediately what was new. Especially useful for me in the Marketplace. Pretty much every time I click on a new subforum, every thread is bolded, too. Not sure how that's useful for anyone? I'd rather be able to distinguish recent activity from all activity. Unless your constantly scanning the forums, this option doesn't seem very helpful. I log in a few times a day, and it's really not doing anything for me.
Thanks for that, GGJstudios. All seems back as it was now.As arn stated in that post, there are 3 selections he could have made. Yesterday he switched from choice #1 to choice #3, which is why you're just now noticing a change. It's a forum-wide change, not something an individual member can select.
So you like that after a certain timeout that some posts are automatically marked as read?
arn
Yes. I liked being able to distinguish recent posts from old ones. A quick glance would let me know immediately what was new. Especially useful for me in the Marketplace. Pretty much every time I click on a new subforum, every thread is bolded, too. Not sure how that's useful for anyone? I'd rather be able to distinguish recent activity from all activity. Unless your constantly scanning the forums, this option doesn't seem very helpful. I log in a few times a day, and it's really not doing anything for me.
So you like that after a certain timeout that some posts are automatically marked as read?
arn
Yes. I like to be able to click on a forum and see what's recent at a glance. I don't see the benefit of logging on in the morning and seeing that I haven't read basically anything. I knew that already when I logged in.
As for what length of time you had it set previously, I'm not sure. It was at least a few hours I believe??? Do you know?
My usual way of following the forums is to follow threads I've posted in by running this search I've bookmarked. (I wish there was a built in way to do this on the forum. If I'm not on a computer with my bookmarks, I can't run this easily.) Then I'll hit Forum Spy to see what's current. Then I'll check the other Sub Forums, looking at the recent stuff first. That's where I think this change falls flat. It makes you read more rather than being visually obvious.
As others have mentioned, you can manually mark all threads in a forum as read through the drop-down menu immediately above the forum: Forum Tools > Mark This Forum Read.Yes. I liked being able to distinguish recent posts from old ones. A quick glance would let me know immediately what was new.
Yes. I like to be able to click on a forum and see what's recent at a glance. I don't see the benefit of logging on in the morning and seeing that I haven't read basically anything. I knew that already when I logged in.
As for what length of time you had it set previously, I'm not sure. It was at least a few hours I believe??? Do you know?
My usual way of following the forums is to follow threads I've posted in by running this search I've bookmarked. (I wish there was a built in way to do this on the forum. If I'm not on a computer with my bookmarks, I can't run this easily.) Then I'll hit Forum Spy to see what's current. Then I'll check the other Sub Forums, looking at the recent stuff first. That's where I think this change falls flat. It makes you read more rather than being visually obvious.
So why not just mark all forums as "read" right now and then, starting right after that, everything will work exactly as you want? Or am I missing something and it won't work the way you want?
I think with the new system you can just "mark all as read" before you leave the forums each time and get the behavior you want. At least that is working for me. I really like this as it gives me complete control rather then posts being marked as read when I have not read them.
The problem before, and this is what lead to the change request, was that it would mark all as read after a certain length of "inactivity." So if you spent ten minutes or so in a post researching and composing a lengthy reply, you would submit your post and come back to find all other posts marked as read, even though you had not read them.
So that search is sort of like a "Participated" thread list, as opposed to a "Subscribed" thread list, or at least that's how it appeared when I altered your search to add my username in place of yours.
Question: do you auto-subscribe to every thread you post in?
I have the option set up where I'm automatically subscribed to every thread I participate in but with no email notification for new posts in those threads. Then, at least for me, simply clicking on User CP shows me basically the same list that your saved search does, with the exception of threads that I've manually unsubscribed from (e.g. front page news stories).
So your search shows me every thread that I've participated in, regardless of whether or not I've subscribed to them, and User CP shows me every thread I've decided I want to see updates for. At least that's how it seems to me.
Does that make sense? I may be rambling...
As others have mentioned, you can manually mark all threads in a forum as read through the drop-down menu immediately above the forum: Forum Tools > Mark This Forum Read.
I think you'll also begin to adjust with time. Right now you're used to looking for bolded threads and forums, but once you get used to it, you'll likely do something very similar based on the time stamps. It's arguably not quite as quick and easy, but it works.