'Mark this forum as read'

[JuggaloBrotha]

Under thread tools when I click 'Mark this forum read' it doesn't do anything.

Thought I'd mention it since there was a major upgrade recently

[MartinLiss]

You're talking about the Forum Tools menu, and believe it or not I had never opened that menu before, but what would you expect that selection to do?

[JuggaloBrotha]

Until this week it would mark the forum (I use it on the Visual Basic.Net forum) threads as read and redirect you to the vbforums.com homepage.

[si_the_geek]

It still works, it just doesn't re-direct you.

Any unread threads will go from having a bolded title to being unbolded. I have noticed that it can take a couple of seconds to do that, so I would recommend leaving the page open until the change happens.

[JuggaloBrotha]

It still works, it just doesn't re-direct you.

Any unread threads will go from having a bolded title to being unbolded. I have noticed that it can take a couple of seconds to do that, so I would recommend leaving the page open until the change happens.

What I usually do is first thing in the morning (get to work) is check the vb.net section and mark that forum as read then I click the 'New Posts' link at the top to check everything else. The last couple of days I'll do that but when I click the 'New Posts' the vb.net one's still show up in the list when they shouldn't. Does is it because it takes the DB a few seconds to update itself or something? The lack of a page refresh/redirect doesn't matter to me.

Additionally, I just tested it with the vb6 forum and that worked fine so either somethings changed or it works for the vb6 but not the vb.net

[si_the_geek]

Does is it because it takes the DB a few seconds to update itself or something?

Yes, just wait until the thread titles are non-bold (typically a second or two, but may take longer if the site is busy).