Why does everything say UNREAD?
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James Cridland posted on Tuesday 5th February at 21:54If you’re logged in to Media UK, you might be wondering why, all of a sudden, lots of topics say UNREAD.
We’ve added a better system to spot which topics you’ve read, and to highlight new posts to you. This is good – so you’ll see new posts being highlighted NEW, and topics you’ve yet to read highlighted UNREAD.
This is good, with one exception; this code went into place late 5 February, and until that time, we’d no idea what you’d read and what you hadn’t. So, we’re assuming you’ve not read any of the old threads. (You might not have done, being fair. You might be brand new. Hello, if so!)
If you read a thread (all the way to the end of the thread, of course), then it’ll be marked as read. So you could laboriously go through all your posts like that. Or, you could just ignore the older ‘unread’s for now. They’ll soon enough be hidden on page 2 or page 3.
Update You can now ‘mark all as read’ by visiting your settings page
Hope that’s good with you; and hope you enjoy the new unread post highlighting.
James – I might be missing something, but is there a ‘mark all as read’ button anywhere?
If not, is this a feature which it might be possible to add?
I have missed something – namely the thread just below this one. Doh!
Heh. And no, there’s no “mark as read” feature. I can’t quite work out how to do it, yet.
Incidentally, as of this evening, you’ll note that “NEW” and “UNREAD” now appear correctly in the main discussion indexes (like this one or this one) if you’re logged-in.
Oh, and I’ve just had a thought about how the ‘mark as read’ feature might work.
And you’ll now find a way of marking all as read by visiting http://www.mediauk.com/me
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Other functionality rolled out this evening (well, actually, written this evening):
(I quite enjoy coding for the discussion section, since the code I’ve written is modern and is nicely extensible. My larger project for the rather older jobs section is very annoying to code and I am enjoying it significantly less.)