BBF tracking read/not-read

[barmar]

I really dislike the way the BBF keeps track of which posts you haven't read.

 

Yesterday I had a lull at work, so I dropped into the forums to catch up, as I hadn't been in since Friday. After a little while I got interrupted by work stuff, which took a half hour or so to deal with. I kept my forum browser window open all this time. When I came back to the forum, it decided that everything posted before I went idle had been read, making it hard to find the new posts.

 

And whenever you logout of the forum, I think it marks everything as read. Which means you can't just pop in briefly to participate in one thread, because you'll lose all your state.

 

It also seems to have intermittent problems when I switch between different computers to read the forum. If I logout on my computer at work, and later login from home, some of the messages I read at work will be marked as unread when get home. But it's not consistent, it only seems to affect some threads. I think it may be threads I posted in.

 

Most other web forums I've used are able to track this stuff much better. Are there any plans to migrate or upgrade to a better platform?

[mink]

I have made the same observations long ago, and would also prefer this issue was solved.

 

Karl

[rioshin]

I've had this same problem on all forums running Invision, never with those running anything else.

[uday]

I think we're slightly backleveled on this forums software but that changing the software to something else might be a bit hard for those of us who are used to this.

 

I believe the latest version supports rss feeds - is that enough of a workaround?

 

uday

[barmar]

I generally don't find RSS a great way to read forums, but maybe that's because I read so few RSS's that I haven't bothered to set up a good reader. I just use Safari's RSS browser, and it doesn't group messages into threads, which is important for forums.