Mark THIS forum?

[pinkymadigan]

Is there a way to just mark the forum your reading as read? It doesn't seem like it's updating unless I read every post, and i really don't want to do that.

[Valkysas]

nope. not even a configurable option. we may hack it though.

[Czechs Mex]

When viewing a list of topics, towards the upper-right portion of the page, there's a box called "Forum Tools". Click the drop down arrow, and select "mark this forum read".

I think this is what you're after.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/czechsmex/markread1.png

[Valkysas]

you found something that not even I knew about! yay!
THANK YOU.

[IRC]

I still don't understand the concept of marking forums read. For me topics that I've not read are bolded, after I read them they become unbolded, and then if someone posts again in that topic it becomes rebolded. I really think that that feature adds tremendously.

[Czechs Mex]

cool, glad i could help. those drop-down boxes are everywhere.

edit: and i think the point is if you decide you don't care about any of the stuff you haven't read, and just want it all to be unbolded anyway. I've never used the "mark as read" deal, but I'm guessing that's why people use it.

[TheBranMuffin]

Wait a sec, there's a lot of threads I KNOW I haven't read, but they're not in bold... What's going on?

[Valkysas]

have you been clicking "mark forums read"?

[TheBranMuffin]

No, never... It's sort of working now. It works for the forums I've gone into before, for the most part.

I dunno, I'm probably just being stupid.

[pinkymadigan]

Thanks Czech, I was missing that feature. And yeah, I like seeing that I've looked at all the forums from the main page.

[Reki]

Edit: er. uh. I guess it doesn't work like that at this particular board.

[John Mora]

No one knew about that? Jeez. It was the first thing I looked for.

[Czechs Mex]

WELL THANKS FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE, MR SMARTYPANTS

[John Mora]

No problemo! :)

[IRC]

I'm having the same problem as Bran Muffin. I marked this forum read to see what it will do and now none of the topics are bold. And these are posts that were made long after I marked the forum.

[pinkymadigan]

Works fine for me, but kicks me out to a shortened version of the Posting Grounds Page.

[Valkysas]

because it goes into the main category screen.

nothing is working wrong, you guys just gotta adjust.

[pinkymadigan]

Yeah I wasn't complaining, because it does work, and I really missed the feature until the light was shined directly into my wee beady eyes.