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NefertariNefertari
edited June 2010 in - Website Problems
Hi Webbo. The red numbers, which tell you how many comments have been added to threads since last reading, don't disappear now so I can't tell which threads I have read.

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  • dorothyddorothyd
    Kateyanne, on my screen unread threads are yellow or lemon if you like and go white when I look at them. I never noticed the numbers changing! I go by the colour.
  • WebboWebbo
    edited June 2010
    Thanks Dorothy.
    Kateyanne, they're still working for me - although I usually go by the thread colour change that Dorothy's pointed out - so perhaps it's a local problem at your end. Have you tried quitting and relaunching your browser (the internet equivalent of turn it off and on again!)

    EDIT: In fact, have you tried refreshing the page of threads? That should probably fix them I think. Nothing I've been fiddling with should have changed how that all works!
  • NefertariNefertari
    Yes I do refresh the threads page, it used to clear the red numbers but not now.

    I'll try relaunching the browser.
  • NefertariNefertari
    edited June 2010
    well I did that but still have the red numbers so for example there is a red number 5 by this thread says' new 5' even though I've read all comments.
    Some of the other threads have minus numbers in grey.
  • PiperPiper
    Do you press the back button or back to discussions?
  • NefertariNefertari
    Hi PJK I've pressed everything!
  • PiperPiper
    What about marking the discussions all read? Have you pressed that at all?
  • NefertariNefertari
    Yes I did that too
  • PiperPiper
    How many times? Because if that don't work, I don't know what's the matter with it.
  • NefertariNefertari
    I'll try it again
  • NefertariNefertari
    Ok they are all on 0 now.
  • PiperPiper
    Well see how it goes. If it still plays up, press it again and it might reset it, I don't know for sure.
  • NefertariNefertari
    But I just read a thread and it still says' new 2' even though I have read them.
    I'll just have to put up with it i guess.
  • NefertariNefertari
    And this says new 3 even though I have read them.
  • richtricht
    Are you using your browsers 'back' button to go back to the list of discussions? That does not update the red numbers. Only the 'Back to Discussions' button at the bottom of the page does that.
  • NefertariNefertari
    richt I'm clicking on the discussions at the top and sometimes coming in completely anew.
  • richtricht
    Yes, that should work. I wonder why it works for most of us, but not for you! Can't think of anything else, I'm afraid.
  • Pete GPete G
    I think I am like kateyanne. Alongside every item on 'Your discussions' is a number and the word 'new' both in red. The number says how entries there are on the discussion. It only changes if someone adds to it. The word 'new' never goes away and red is always red. I have tried all you suggested and no change. Maybe I am stuck with it as well.
    How odd.
  • heatherheather
    I have same issue as kateyanne - always have had no matter what I do. The numbers only go to zero when I 'Mark all as read'. And some of the numbers are negative!
  • LizLiz
    Mine never used to work, and what's more neither did my discussions going yellow.

    But eventually i found that there is a tab under your account page with 'forum preferences' on it and somewhere in there I adjusted something and then it all worked for me. And I have lived much more happily ever after, everything is so much easier once things work.
  • CarolCarol
    Yes there is or was an option so you would be able to click on the thread and it would go to the last comment you read. I've never had this problem described, though I have the 'New' in black and the number is in red and the new/number is underlined in red.
  • WebboWebbo
    I think it might be the "Reset discussion status", from "Forum preferences" in the "Account" page in the links at the top centre, underneath the banner ad.
    I've been wrong before though! Please let me know if it works.
  • heatherheather
    No, Webbo, that sets them all back to yellow/unread. At least, it did for me!
  • CarolCarol
    Must be something about your computer system that's making a difference...
  • WebboWebbo
    Oh how annoying Heather, sorry. On mine it didn't have that effect, but it's hard to know how the forum behaves for non-administrator accounts on other machines, etc. I hope it's not too inconvenient for you.
  • heatherheather
    Not really. You get used to it!
  • MutleyMutley
    Actually although it resets them you can do it twice and it sets them back and, in my case a while ago, clears the problem that Kateyanne is having. Good luck. I know how infuriating it can be. What browser are you using Kateyanne - they seem to react differently with different ones. I now (Google Chrome) have to refresh to get them to change - whereas with IE it did it automatically even if I had used the back button.
  • NefertariNefertari
    Webbo has fixed my problem now. Thanks Webbo.
  • CarolCarol
    Three cheers for Webbo...
  • WebboWebbo
    So just to recap for anyone else, this seems to fix the problem: try selecting the "Reset discussion status" (from the "Account" link above, then "Forum preferences", then it appears in the left hand margin).
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