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All day today, whenever I visit, I read a few posts and then it marks every single one of them as read. I'm still logged in though. Any reason why it would do this?
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Post by Ambush Commander »

If your session expires, they all get marked read. At least that's how I think it works.
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

Been happening for last week ;). For me. Comes and goes on almost all phpBB forums I visit - I just don't notice it any more.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

phpBB's implementation of read post tracking is pretty poor. Usually you'll get the opposite whereby phpBB will just simply stop marking your posts as read.

It uses a cookie stored on your PC, and the cookie of course has a maximum size so you need to delete it every so often. Tracking them via DB would be better IMO but hey ho :)
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They're adding database level tracking in Olympus, but I don't know if the old branch will get the update as well.
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Post by santosj »

I'm not impressed by the development or the lack thereof of phpBB version 3.

I've currently been using and somewhat loving Simple Machine Forums, which I believe is a branch off of another forum that I totally hated when back when. SMF is cool. It kind of has my most favorite feature, which is to track which topics you have posted in and see on one page what topics have new posts in.

It is kind of like the 'Notify me when a reply is posted', but it doesn't suck. I'm currently wanting for the version 1.1 of SMF to be released, but there seems to be a slow down of noticable development.

I really can't see why all of the free forum developers can get together, get their act together and make a damn awesome forum to rival vBulletin. That would never happen as they would most likely fight over how something should be implemented and nothing would be done. I'll say, if they only used a similar code base and just branched off of it and adding features to the main whenever a decision is passed. I can dream. I think they also want to be able to make the decisions on what features are implemented in what version.
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Post by Benjamin »

This problem seems to be getting worse. Now it's logging me out AND marking all post's as read. I tried deleting all the devnetwork cookies in firefox (by searching for the term devnetwork) but that hasn't fixed it.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

Is this only happening in FF?
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Post by Ambush Commander »

I'm having similar troubles in Firefox 1.5.0.2 too.
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Post by Benjamin »

Same problem on both Firefox and IE on my PC.
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

That is insanely odd. I wonder if there is a cookie/session_data conflict somehow that is causing that. I know that phpBB session code uses two serialized cookies to stored your session data and it looks for a few things to authenticate your session. I wonder if that is what is causing the problem?
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Post by Benjamin »

This issue isn't going away for me. Does anyone know how to fix it?
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

Could be hazardous for the annoyance - but have you tried using the Firefox function to clear private data? Have you tried with your firewall disabled?
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I would like the "Mark all forums read" button back on the Forum Index
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Post by onion2k »

Pimptastic wrote:I would like the "Mark all forums read" button back on the Forum Index
Bottom left under all the forums if you're using Sherbert.
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