New messages are not showing as new

[mcvaughan]

I've noticed that if I read one section for a while that messages from another section are marked as Read. IOW, why won't these messages I have not clicked on yet stay "new?" I use the read the newest messages link for each section but it won't show me the messages that I have not seen yet.

Does this make any sense to anyone?

 

[Eraserhead]

Isn't it because someone has started but not sent a reply in the relevant thread/forum? At least that's what I've always thought it was.

 

[mcvaughan]

I don't think so.

Another explanation of what I'm talking about. I read something in one section, and then I jump to another section where I see posts with today's date that I have not read that are not bolded like other new posts. Because of this, it's hard to keep up with all the newest messages.

 

[mad jew]

Could you have taken so long with the first message that you may have been automatically logged out? I'm still not sure I know what you're talking about...

 

[WildCowboy]

If you have no activity in the forums for 15 minutes, the system considers you to have left and all threads are marked read. Is that what's happening?

 

[MacNut]

Ya more info is needed as its making my head hurt.

 

[mcvaughan]

If you have no activity in the forums for 15 minutes, the system considers you to have left and all threads are marked read. Is that what's happening?

I suppose that's a plausible explanation. I wasn't sure what the timeout was.