Yeah, the data is stored using cookies, and there are limits on how many cookies a site can set, and how much data can be stored in them, so it's not possible to make this system work perfectly.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Ok, since we're reporting bugs like never before...
Don't waste all that bug reporting energy now, because when I really want bug reports is after I upgrade... I'll fix even the smallest things then, like spelling/grammar errors, to get the forums near perfect (if possible
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Also, on the main forum page, sometimes there are blue arrows indicating new posts in those forums, when I visit those forums, there isn't any indication of a new post... Only when I click "mark all forums read" the blue arrow will change to grey....
As I've said in the past, those icons are not based on posts. It would be too server-intensive to check for new posts in each forum when displaying the index. They simply indicate if there were new posts in that forum since your last visit.
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Originally posted by bach_m
However, once i'm done reading and return to the latest posts page, and refresh, some of them are still marked blue!
How many threads are you opening? The cookie is only capable of remembering the latest threads that you loaded. Maybe there were replies to those threads since you loaded them?
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Originally posted by bach_m
but there was a time when it actaully worked very well..... i wonder what happened?!
That's strange, because nothing changed, unless some other dodgy admin did it. I'll do some testing later to see how it works for me.
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
It could be easly fixed IMO (but what do I know about php....er nothing)... whenever you click a link to a thread, to cookie is updated with the date, time and 'name' of that thread....
Then on the "last posts" pages, just check those cookies....
That's how it currently works.
However, as explained above, there are limitations to that system.
Damn, my space bar is messed up... I must have broken it when I hit the keyboard yesterday... 
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