forum marked as "new posts" if I post in it

[Lovechild]

Whenever I post in a subforum the forum software has the idiotic idea that there are new posts in that the forum, this definately shouldn't be the case - no other forum behaves this way.

[Schotty]

I can confirm this behavior and agree that we should correct this.

[Compunuts]

Yeah, even if I've read the posts in the sub-forum, I needed to go into the main forum to get those new-post diappear. Annoying for sure.

[peter]

Two different sets of symbols indicate whether a forum or sub forum has new posts.

• On the forum home page, the large star to the left of each main forum turns from gray to gold when there are new posts in it, or one of its sub-forums.

• The sub-forums also have their stars too. They reside to the left of each sub-forum's name. They turn from gray to gold too.

If the main forum has a gold star and all the sub-forums remain gray, then the main forum is the one with the new posts.

The best way to determine whether a main forum or sub-forum has updates is to refer to these icons which should help to easily isolate correct forum to investigate.

[Compunuts]

The best way to determine whether a main forum or sub-forum has updates is to refer to these icons which should help to easily isolate correct forum to investigate.

All is good except ....

If a subforum has a new post (for example Redhat/Fedora subforum in distributions main forum) and I've read a post in that subforum and I clicked home from the top menu, the distribution forum still shows there is/are new posts indicator icon. If I go into that forum, there is none. Even a subforum will have none. ONLY after I go into the main forum after I went into the subforum again, it WILL NOT disappear (it refers to the new posts indicator icon). No matter how many times I've gone into the main forum, unless I go into the subforum of that new posts even after I've already read it from the main link of latest posts, it will NOT disappear. It still shows there are new posts.

[Lovechild]

So.. ISFEATURE not ISBUG.. unacceptable Peter, simply unacceptable

If I post in a subforum, there are no new posts I should be informed about, doing so is counter intuitive and goes against the methodology of every other forum on the internet. It's like my IM client sending me a message to inform me that I'm online - just bad behavior.

Please for the love of the flying spaghetti monster fix this.