I think that the behavior may have changed when the BBS was upgraded a couple weeks ago.

Although I don't think it changed much. As I recall, it always worked like this:

- As soon as you go into a thread, it counts that thread as "read" in the index.

- If you don't read all the messages within the thread, and you go back out of it, tough luck: you didn't finish reading the thread while you were in there.

- In this way, you can "ignore" threads and mark them as ready simply by hopping into the thread and back out again.


I think that the recent upgrade may have added the following behavior:

- If you hop in and out of a thread, it counts the whole thread as "read" in the index, as before, but if you want to hop back into the thread and read it anyway, the individual messages will still have the proper read/unread marks on them so you can continue to browse. (I think that before, they all got marked as read.)


Can anyone confirm this behavior? If this is true, I don't see how it's a problem. I can only see it as an advantage.

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Tony Fabris