"Show unread posts since last visit" not working

[Carole]

Show unread posts seems to have stopped working the last couple of days.

Carole

[Rick]

When you say "not working", do you mean:

• It's not showing any unread posts at all, but I know there are some I've not read.
• It's showing some unread posts, but is missing others.
• Something else?[/\i]
  

[Carole]

•It's showing some unread posts, but is missing others.

Carole

[Rick]

I've been trying to spot a pattern, but so far the only time I think I might have caught it not showing all the unread messages has been when I returned to a tab which had been sitting open but unattended for a while.

[Carole]

I'll see how it goes, seems to be spasmodic.

Carole

[Rick]

Yeah, which makes it trickier to track down. I suspect it gets an updated last-visited time, and misses all the new posts in a particular time window, but it's hard to reproduce the circumstances...

[Carole]

Now for instance I just came onto the Forum and it showed me the post about the Weather, are the weather God's joking?.  But it wouldn't show me this post which I found because it was in blue.

Carole

[mickw]

So you are saying that you can see "new" posts that have the blue "new" tab but not the "recent posts" list at the bottom ?

[Rick]

Hmmm... So it missed the older of two posts, which fits my speculation but isn't conclusive...

[Carole]

No Mick, when I click show unread posts it might list say two, but if I then look down the list of sections there could be several new ones highlighted in blue which I haven't read which haven't come up on the show unread posts list.

Carole

[mickw]

So there's a "show unread posts" button ?

I can't find it 

[Rick]

If you un-hide the stuff at the top (click the on the right-hand end of the line that says "Hi Mick") you'll find some links inside. It's one of them. Usually, I leave all that stuff hidden as it uses too much screen space, and look for blue logos instead...

I suppose you could bookmark the relevant link, but it does occasionally seem to miss a post or three...

[mickw]

Thanks for that Rick - I think you've told me this before 

[Carole]

Show unread posts has not been working for quite a few days either on my phone or the PC.

Carole

[Mac]

Carole you are replying to a 10 year old post. The entry before yours was by Mick, in 2012.

Is it response to that post or a new issue with unread posts?
I've not noticed any issues and ive always used unread posts as a saved link.

Mac.