Ajare on 11/11/2004 at 14:36
When I read all the unread posts in a forum, and then leave it, the lightbulb is still lit, and I have to go back into the forum and then out again for it switch off. I move about using the links, not the 'back' button, so that's not the problem. It's mildly irritating. Anyone have any ideas? I'm using IE6 and have cookies enabled.
edit: same problem on a different machine, running FireFox 1.0
dj_ivocha on 12/11/2004 at 00:50
Umm, the bulbs have nothing to do with (un)read posts. They show if other users are browsing the forum as well.
mopgoblin on 12/11/2004 at 00:58
I'd say he's talking about the ones on the index page (and those group-of-forums pages that no one ever looks at, like "Community Center").
David on 12/11/2004 at 07:17
The bulbs are to do with unread posts in the relevant forums. The problem arises from a halfway-house persistant Mark Read system rather than the pseudo sort-of-works cookie-based solution vBulletin has now.
Hopefully a decent mark-read system should make it into the next vB update.
buglunch on 18/11/2004 at 21:42
This last explains a lot for me and helps greatly.
(And verifies what I had suspected since the Korean 'police action" War... :sly: :cheeky: )
