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Just noticed clicking a forum icon to make it "read"


Guest Keven Fox

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I've never used this feature, what's it good for? :huh:



I've never really used marking all posts as read either, but I can imagine how it would be used to full effect. It probably works best on forums that are smaller than this one, though; whenever you come on here, it's safe to assume that almost all of the forums have a new post. If you mark all posts as read, you can quickly and easily use the icons on the left to see which forums have new posts that you may want to read.

Anyway, I don't use the system, but that's how I would assume people use it.
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I've never used this feature, what's it good for? :huh:


For instance, on my board I have a digg RSS forum. I will peruse it and read the topics I want to, and when I'm done I'll click the forum icon to clear it so that next time that the icon is "illuminated" I'll know there's new posts, since RSS feeds are set not to show up in my View New Posts.
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Well you might have forums within a category which you don't want to minimize due to having forums where there are posts you have an interest in. So what you can do is click the forum icon so it doesn't show as new posts. When you see that you think you're missing something.

This is the same reason I thought we shouldn't have a bright icon for redirect icons and maybe just have "LINK" or something.

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It doesn't work.



When I click the icon to mark the forum read and then search for new posts, they still show the posts in that forum as new.


It works exactly the way it has always worked, with the exception that now it doesn't require a page refresh.

When you do a "View New Posts" the topics will be there, but they won't be flagged as new. Same as always.
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