Unread Posts

[Old Bristolian]

Is the site experiencing difficulties today?

I normally sign in & out several times during the day (so the boss doesn't catch me at work!) & can catch up by going straight to "Unread posts". Even after holidays they are all still there (often over 20 pages or more), but today I am only finding one page of unreads - missing several hours of input

Steve

[genjen]

I have been out for a few hours today and have three pages of unreads so that looks normal to me. Not very helpful to you though, sorry.

Jen

[Roobarb]

The same thing happened to me the other day. Back to normal the next day though. It will forever remain a mystery! Can only suggest trying again later or tomorrow Steve

[Arranroots]

Not sure why there's a difference from your normal experience but you can either look at the bottom of the page and click All Unread (takes ages, as there will be thousands of them)

or - you can do a Rootschat search for anything within the last day.  I think that would work - haven't actually tried it!

Kind regards, Arranroots 

Edit - it does work - just search on "the" or "a"

[Sloe Gin]

At a slight tangent, but isn't there a way of marking all posts as read?  Every other forum I've used has this facility, but I can't seem to find it here.

As a new member, practically every post is marked "new" for me, and it's rather distracting.  I'm never going to read every post (won't live that long!  ), and I would like to have a clean sheet to start from.

[Roobarb]

I suppose they're marked as read by the fact they don't appear as unread posts! I know what you mean though, it would be useful.

[Sloe Gin]

Yes, you see I don't often use the "unread posts" facility as there are a lot of sections I don't have an interest in at the moment.  I prefer to go straight to the areas that may have something relevant to me.  Then I click on the posts that look interesting, or to which I might be able to contribute, and it would be so useful to be able to clear the rest each time I visit. 

Seems very odd there's no "Mark all as read" feature, it seems to be pretty standard.

[Old Bristolian]

Thanks Arranroots for the suggestion for searching within the last day - I haven't tried that before.

I tried All Unread as you mention, but as I hovered the cursor over it, the legend disappeared & would not react.

Lets hope today it sorts itself out as Roobarb's did

Steve

[Stumped!]

Well.........something is different.

When I signed on this morning there were three pages of "unread posts since last visit" going back to 10.30 pm yesterday.
I looked at a topic on page 3 asking about some information requested about christenings in Manchester Cathedral and when I went back to unreads there were only five items remaining.

It wasn't my cookie as I had cleared it from my pc and had to log on.

Peter

Added  09.53 Well now it's working properly