'First Unread' function weird behavior

BigBlue1 · Apr 23, 2020

Normally when I click the link to a thread I've visited before I am taken to the first unread message in that thread. During the last 4 days or so about 50% of the time I now get dumped into the middle of a thread, not at the first unread message. For instance, in the huge thread 'Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong' I was just dumped into the middle (like page 6xx) at messages posted in 2017. The other 50% of the time I end up at the correct location at the first message I have not seen in that thread.

Any ideas what is broken?

Rob

oldballs · Apr 23, 2020

I don't know what's broken, but I have to log in every time I visit here. Didn't used to.....and still get some of those crazy side adds.

No Cheers,
Mike

rekees4300 · Apr 23, 2020

oldballs said:
I don't know what's broken, but I have to log in every time I visit here. Didn't used to.....and still get some of those crazy side adds.

No Cheers,
Mike

I'm using PC/Windows 10/Firefox. Try this -> after login never logout.

MossRoad · Apr 23, 2020

Sometimes people have their machine settings clear cookies when they leave a website, or not remember pages, or are in privacy mode, etc... those will cause you to have to log in each time. So worth a check for any of those.

BigBlue1 · Apr 23, 2020

How about the unread issue?

Xfaxman · Apr 23, 2020

My issue on Chrome is after clicking the link on "New Posts" of a thread I have been reading every day, it skips the posts I have not seen.

Xfaxman · Apr 23, 2020

I just now clicked 3 threads, including this one, on "Today's Posts" that I just finished reading. It went to the first post in each thread. ??

BigBlue1 · Apr 23, 2020

If you have already read all posts in a thread, the next time you click the thread title it will go to the first post. Until another new post comes in. So that is consistent with forum actions I've known.

My issue is that sometimes when there is actually an unread post I don't get sent to it, I get sent to somewhere in the middle of the thread (assuming multiple pages in that thread).

Rob

von-mil · Apr 23, 2020

BigBlue1 said:
If you have already read all posts in a thread, the next time you click the thread title it will go to the first post. Until another new post comes in. So that is consistent with forum actions I've known.

My issue is that sometimes when there is actually an unread post I don't get sent to it, I get sent to somewhere in the middle of the thread (assuming multiple pages in that thread).

Rob

This has been happening to me off and on for a few weeks now. I've been trying to find a pattern as to how and when it happens but cannot. I stay logged on when I leave the site (the 'Remember Me' feature at login) so I thought that logging out and then back in might resolve the problem. No luck. I'm on a PC with the Firefox browser. Clearing all cookies did not help either.