Forum marking threads already read too quickly
 

Hello,

How can I get the forums to stop marking all threads read so quickly? As it is now, if I look away for a couple of minutes and come back all the new/replied to threads are marked read in every subforum. Heck, even if I read a long thread it can time out.

I tried looking for a setting in the User CP, but nothing stood out for me.

Thanks for any assistance!

First off, you have to understand that this forum software is old. Rogean tried updating it a few years ago and everyone threw a fit, so now we're pretty much stuck with outdated forum software. But on the plus side the forums feel like they're from the same era as classic EQ :)

In light of the above, I don't think there is any setting you can change to control when posts get marked "read". I could be wrong, but as far as I can tell if you click "New Posts" the forum will give you every new post, and then mark them all as "read" like 20-30 minutes later, and there's nothing you can do about it.

But, to work around it, what you can do is logout, or open a new incognito window, and then come back to the forum. Instead of "New Posts" you'll have a "Today's Posts" link, and that will have all new posts ("read" and "unread").

Or you can just do what I do, and not open up "New Posts" unless you're ready to at least skim through all of them.