Some members have indicated that they have some sort of indicator or flag showing that they have read all and/or the last post in a Forum Subject thread.

I don't seem to have such an option or if I do, I'm not sure what it would/should look like, nor can I find any way to enable such a feature.

Any suggestion or help would be most appreciated.

Thanks.

Just click on the New Posts under the top red bar. the posts in Bold are the posts you haven't read.

Thanks Joker Eh,

Normally I just open a forum in a separate window so that I can sort of keep track as to where I am, as they're nicely ordered by date list view.

Now that I know what to look for I think I just might be able to a see a very slight difference, but the "bold" sure isn't very bold.

And for some of the forum subject threads that I know I haven't opened or looked, I see absolutely no "bolding" on the subject.

Maybe this is a SL Mac GUI thing where Apple seems to pride itself with a very subtle GUI. And not quite as bad as Lion where everything seems so depressing and looking like and reminding me that maybe I'm in some Mac OS foggy graveyard and with multiple tones of GUI depressing greys and maybe if lucky, some faint pastel like colors!!

Edit: Maybe the Mayor might have some suggestions to get a better plain/BOLD contrast on such forum subjects as to being read/unread if he chimes in here and I'd be happy to send some screen shots for what I'm seeing. Hmmm...???

It's a pretty bold bold already.

From New Posts search results...

Thanks guys,

I did a complete shut down, cold boot into Safe Boot Mode, ran DU permission/verify just in case, restarted and the bold is now showing MUCH better.

Odd, but I did the same procedure just last week. Oh well, seems to be working now thanks.

Dang!!! I spoke too soon.

I opened the Anything Mac forum and all todays subject posts were in Bold, from 'Battery condition?" at the bottom up. OK, good.

Opened the Battery condition? in a new window, closed the window, Battery condition? and the others all still in bold, makes sense.

Refreshed the Anything Mac page, and the Battery condition? subject was un-bolded, makes sense, but so were all the other previously bolded and unread and unopened subjects, ALL un-bolded which doesn't make sense. Dang!!

I guess I'm doing something the wrong way.


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Dang!!! I spoke too soon.

I opened the Anything Mac forum and all todays subject posts were in Bold, from 'Battery condition?" at the bottom up. OK, good.

Opened the Battery condition? in a new window, closed the window, Battery condition? and the others all still in bold, makes sense.

Refreshed the Anything Mac page, and the Battery condition? subject was un-bolded, makes sense, but so were all the other previously bolded and unread and unopened subjects, ALL un-bolded which doesn't make sense. Dang!!

I guess I'm doing something the wrong way.


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This is the intended behavior, you are misunderstanding the functionality. It is intended to show you what is new since your "last visit" (not what you have and haven't read -- although it works that way with back and forth). When you refresh, it reloads the browser session and it takes this as a new visit, thus nothing is new! Don't refresh to look for new posts, re-click on the forum to recieve the experience you are looking for.

Thanks G-Mo.

That explains a lot.

I guess my thinking was that each subject was its own separate page, which I guess it is, but just like the actual Forum page is and it's an all or nothing bolding type thing.

Thanks G-Mo.

That explains a lot.

I guess my thinking was that each subject was its own separate page, which I guess it is, but just like the actual Forum page is and it's an all or nothing bolding type thing.

Just a thought, but one thing to consider. If you have cookies disabled in Safari prefs, you won't see the bolding properly for read and not read posts. If you allow cookies from sites you visit, all will work as you seem to expect it.

Hmmm...and a very astute observation SINC.

I did run into a "SafariCookies" auto update problem on Mar. 2 that I use that was goofy and causing my Safari prefs to crash, but that was resolved by Mar. 3 thanks to the developer with a proper fixed 1.9.1 version.

I'll keep a double check on my Safari cookie Security prefs and especially now that the new SafariCookies 1.9.1 uses the Security pref "allow" type options.