New posts

We seem to be having a problem similar to what we had a couple of years ago, which turned out to be just a configuration setting.

When you click 'New posts', you get a list of threads that have been updated since you last clicked new posts. However as a consequence if you read one, then click new posts again to show the remaining unread ones, sometimes (but not always) they are gone.

Furthermore, if you go to the quick links and choose Todays Posts, it will show posts as read even if you haven't read them.

Also, if you post on a thread, then that thread is no longer bold (because you've read it), then close the browser and come back later, the thread is sometimes bold again indicating that it contains unread posts even though you've read it all.

And finally, if you click the icon to the left of the thread title that is supposed to take you to the first unread post in the thread, sometimes it just goes to the first post, sometimes another post, but rarely the first unread post.

If I remember right from when we saw similar before before, it turned out to be a config option where you can choose between the browser remembering the details, or the server. The fix was to let the database (the server) look after what had been read and what hadn't.