So I guess the purple number in parentheses in the "Posts" column in the main forum view is the number of new/unread posts since your last visit. This seems to be a little buggy, with the numbers sometimes appearing randomly or when I know I've read the posts. Clicking into the forum and then clicking back out/refreshing seems to get them to show appropriately... EXCEPT... for whatever reason, I seem to cosntantly be showing 14 new posts in the Trail Running forum that aren't going away no matter how many times I read the forum???

There are posts I've read, and every time I go back into Gunks.com, it shows the forum as having unread messages, and I waste time going into there only to see it's all stuff I've read already. This happens often. Even if I refresh and the post shows up as read, the next time I login to gunks.com, it's marked unread again.

Jannette

I've been going by the presence/absence of the grey bar over posts/forums that contain unread messages. This still seems to work.

That's exactly what doesn't always work. Can't seem to determine why it works sometimes and not others. But I have gone into forums and realized I was re-reading posts with the grey bar that I've already read.

Using Firefox 1.5.0.4 on Windows XP.

Jannette

Oh, yeah, I've seen that.

It only happened to me when I had the "remember me with a cookie so next time I don't have to log in" turned on.

Janette, do you use the "back" button to navigate out of a forum, or one of the "Index" buttons on the site? It seems to me that going "back" doesn't set the cookie to set the thread as "read", while using one of the navigation buttons within the forum/site does set the thread or post as "read".

Fascinating. I'll try that and see if that makes a difference. Thanks Julie.

Jannette

that's not working for me...i'm getting more unread posts than ever, but not in every forum. it's really weird.

Yeah - it has been failing to work for me since the new forum, too.