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Message marking bugs

Dec 13, 2006 8:13AM PST

Hi folks,

I've been hearing complaints here and there that the Message marking since the redesign has being kinda of buggy. Can you guys give me some details as to what is not working for you guys. The more detail the better so I can give the engineers the big pictures as to what is wrong.

Thanks in advance!
-Lee

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Couyple of solid problems, may be more.
Dec 13, 2006 8:41AM PST

First problem is perhaps a feature, but, it is really annoying. After you have posted a reply to a message, the topic is flagged as red (unread message) even when the message you have just posted is the only unread message.

Second problem is that after marking a forum as read, it takes a while before topics are marked as unread again, even when there are obviously new messages based on the last message time stamp / order in the topic index.

There may be other related problems, but, I just stopped watching for them.

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What I've noticed...
Dec 13, 2006 11:43AM PST

1.) Right now there are about a dozen threads where no matter how many times I view every reply it displays the red dot indicating that there are updates. Viewing the thread and then returning to the forum page may resolve it for 20 minutes, but it lights back up again soon after. Interesting to note that in almost every single one of those threads I was the last one to post!

2.) There were two threads concerning the James Kim tragedy that never turned yellow or red. For the first post through the last the dot remained grey so it took me 3 days before I realized I have never opened the thread.

3.) There have been a couple of threads, including the incredibly long 'What do you like/dislike about IE7' thread in the Browsers forum where a similar thing happened. The list of threads lit up with a red dot indicating new posts, but upon looking through the thread not a single post was marked yellow. I ended up finding the new replies by searching for the text "new!" on the page.

4.) This one's not actually a bug, but rather a design 'flaw.' After submitting a post the 'message read flag' should automatically be set to true. As it stands we have to return to the discussion and view our own post, something a lot of us don't like to do since we already previewed it...it just takes more time and bandwidth. Any chance that can be modified?

John