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Title: Always being told "No unread topics found since your last visit."
Post by: dane-m on March 02, 2020, 08:14:01 am
Whenever I click on "Show unread posts since last visit" I'm being told that there are no unread topics found since my last visit, even when there are (for example Donald's Menagerie preview and the various replies).  I think this behaviour started within the last week or so, i.e. I'm fairly sure that I recently checked successfullt for unread posts.  Anyone got any idea what could be causing it?  If it's relevant, I selected the permanently logged-in option back when I first started using the forum.
Title: Re: Always being told "No unread topics found since your last visit."
Post by: dane-m on March 02, 2020, 01:04:38 pm
I've experimented with deleting the cookies from the site, but that hasn't cleared the problem.
Title: Re: Always being told "No unread topics found since your last visit."
Post by: dane-m on March 03, 2020, 05:05:54 pm
Just in case anyone else ever suffers a similar problem...

It turned out that the 'Ignore Boards Options' in my profile had changed such that some boards were being ignored that shouldn't have been.  I'd not deliberately changed that part of my profile (I'd even forgotten that it existed), but maybe there was some other way (e.g. a shortcut) that I could have done so accidentally.
Title: Re: Always being told "No unread topics found since your last visit."
Post by: GendoIkari on March 03, 2020, 07:45:45 pm
Just in case anyone else ever suffers a similar problem...

It turned out that the 'Ignore Boards Options' in my profile had changed such that some boards were being ignored that shouldn't have been.  I'd not deliberately changed that part of my profile (I'd even forgotten that it existed), but maybe there was some other way (e.g. a shortcut) that I could have done so accidentally.

I believe that the search page actually reuses that same selection, so if you were searching for a post, and limited your search to certain forums, it could have set those forums to be the only ones not ignored or something.
Title: Re: Always being told "No unread topics found since your last visit."
Post by: GendoIkari on March 03, 2020, 09:38:59 pm
Just in case anyone else ever suffers a similar problem...

It turned out that the 'Ignore Boards Options' in my profile had changed such that some boards were being ignored that shouldn't have been.  I'd not deliberately changed that part of my profile (I'd even forgotten that it existed), but maybe there was some other way (e.g. a shortcut) that I could have done so accidentally.

I believe that the search page actually reuses that same selection, so if you were searching for a post, and limited your search to certain forums, it could have set those forums to be the only ones not ignored or something.

Or not; while it does indeed set the initial search options to exclude things you have ignored; changing which boards you're searching doesn't seem to change the ignored board options.