Forum Suggestions & User Assistance - Age of threads marked as unread?

I'm a relatively new forum member and I have a question about which threads are marked as having unread posts in them. I'm visiting the forums today for the first time since Friday May 28. However in the forums I have visited so far there are threads that were started after that which do not have the icon for holding unread posts. Is there a setting I can change to fix that? I can hardly have read them already if I haven't been here. Thanks.

Anyone know about this? It did it again between now and yesterday afternoon. I go into a forum, only a few threads have the open envelope with papers sticking out indicating new posts unread. However further down are threads that indicate a last post time early this morning. I certainly didn't read them early this morning. I just got to the website just now. However those new posts aren't marked as unread. What's the point of read vs unread and marking forums as such when the damn web site isn't going to keep track of them or honor them anyway. It makes it impossble to read the forums...I can't keep track of which posts in which threads I've read and which ones I haven't. The damned system is supposed to keep track of that and present such info to me so I can click and see only new posts. What gives?

Hellooooo? Anybody running this place?
This is getting absurd. I shouldn't have to remember when my last visit was to be able to determine if a post to a thread is new and unread or not. The forum software should do it. When I got here this morning, my last visit had been yesterday afternoon. The Advocacy and Safety forum's (for example, there are many others) little speech balloon icon was grey rather than blue, indicating there wer no new posts that I hadn't read. Well, that's complete bull****. There had been lots of posts since my visit of yesterday. None of the newly posted-to threads had the icon next to them indicating that there were new posts to be read. This is completely unacceptable. What's the point of marking a forum read after I read it if the 'read-marking" doesn't function correctly. I'd love to hang out here at bikeforums since I am just getting back into cycling after a hiatus but if it's gonna be this much work what's the point. Life's too short to put up with annoyances like non-functioning forum software. And I'm not gonna even mention how slow it is. I could live with that if there was a way to reliably tell if I needed to read new posts in a thread or forum. Sheesh!
Do any forum administrators actually read this forum? No response for a day or two I can understand. Longer? Makes you think the place is running on autopilot. If this is not the right forum for this please move the whole thread. Thanks.

That function is cookie driven, so if you clear your cookies, then you lose your known threads history.

Never cleared my cookies...

What browser are you using? What OS. They'll ask me when I refer it up to tech.

There are known issues with some IE versions (IE6 particularly), as well as one open source browser, Camino (Not supported by vBulletin, yet).

It's IE, but it happens at work. I cruise the forums while the PC crunches on stuff at work. I'll look Monday and see exactly what version they're using. I don't clear cookies and I do stay logged in between visits (I don't have to log in each time I visit). Hope we can figure it out. It's really rough trying to keep up with topics if the read/unread thing skips all the posts in the middle :-(

By your sig, I would guess you're a Rush fan. My first concert was a Rush show (2112 tour). This August I'm taking my son to his first concert...Rush. He can't wait.

Tnx for looking into this. I'm reading the forums trying to keep my motivation and interest in cycling stoked in between all the marching band dad and Boy Scout dad stuff.

Sounds like we're the same ageish range (50). My first show was Rush on the 2112 tour as well.

Win XP SP3
IE 7.0.5730.13

Thanks. BTW, I was 14 at the time. Great show.

It definitely something that is happening as I arrive at the forum and open up the webpage. Perhaps I should try actually logging out when I leave and logging in when I arrive instead of staying logged in. Today I see t he cutoff time for the ones not read are all new posts AFTER I arrive here at bikeforums.net today. Anything posted prior to my arrival was marked read as I arrived today. Sucks.

More info, this phenomenon isn't evident when I first get to the forums...since the first forum I visit in here has the read/unread marked correctly. But the second one I visit is wrong. So it's happening as I perhaps leave the first forum visited? Thanks.

Are you certain that you aren't automatically clearing your cookies???

Wouldn't that log me out? I looked for that first thing actually and didn't see where that was happening.

I'll be darned. It worked today...great. Very pleasant experience.

Worked until today. Worked for about halfway through forums, then I noticed I wasn't getting all the new ones again. Sigh.

It's gotta be inherent to your computer, or the system you are accessing thru.

Everything is the same here, even if it is dog slow.......

Well, it's a work computer, not much I can do to change anything on it. Sucks having to keep track of dates and times I visited a forum...exactly what stuff the forum software should be doing for me.

Well, it's a work computer, not much I can do to change anything on it. Sucks having to keep track of dates and times I visited a forum...exactly what stuff the forum software should be doing for me.
If it's a work computer it's most likely clearing at least some cookies automatically.