Read / unread posts

[AccordCE8]

I sometime notice that the read / unread (blue / yellow post pics) marks are fault, it 'says' I already have read the thread while I know I haven't. Am I the only one who has this problem?
Can it be caused by the fact I sometimes visit this forum from my computer at work and sometimes at home? That it makes a mess of it then?

[Kohhal]

Yep. The software knows what forums you have read by the cookie that is stored on the PC you use. So using different PCs eg. home and work will have different cookies with different dates on them and so will show different posts and threads as being read/unread.
It's just the way it works.

[AccordCE8]

That should be it then, thanks

[Veetec]

Originally posted by TheMasterG
Yep. The software knows what forums you have read by the cookie that is stored on the PC you use. So using different PCs eg. home and work will have different cookies with different dates on them and so will show different posts and threads as being read/unread.
It's just the way it works.

I´ve got the same problem but without changing computers! It´s always the same one.

[VTEC1600]

As far as i can see, the forum remembers when you've last entered a forum (like the europe forum) this is done by username and not by cookies. SO if you 've opened the Europe forum even without reading the new posts it will think you have read all, and an hour later it will only show the new posts since your last enter.
Of course when you open them, they're immediately read

[Goosse]

I think Vtec1600 is correct on this one. I use different computers from time to time and it seems to work with my username, not the cookies. If enter the forum without entering my username (without any cookies on the PC), al the threads are marked unread, if I log in under my username, then the treads apear that I haven't read yet.

[Kohhal]

That's because there are two seperate cookies, one for your username and one for the unlogged in user which also has a cookie associated with the ip address.