Ziz said:
Ok, the problem isn't just the indicators now. I just went to the General SW forum and hit "Unread posts" on a thread I was in last night and it brought me back to the first unread post from over a week ago when the thread started (in case it makes a difference, it's the "Our Fault, Not George's" thread).
The "first unread post" marker isn't updated unless you read the last page of the topic. If a topic is marked as unread and you view it, but don't view the last page, the first unread post remains what it was because viewing the last page is the trigger to reset that value. I'll probably rework this because it causes confusion. Ideally, it should take you to the page following the last page you looked at.
Also, I just fired up the forums in IE, which I hardly ever use, and IT was even showing all the indicators white, nothing in blue, which means it thinks that everything has been read when, if I haven't used it in such a long time, the forums should come up as unread for the past few months.
Actually, no. Topics showing up as unread or not has nothing to do with the browser. It's all tied to your account. If you login and read a topic in Firefox, then open IE and login, that topic will be marked as read--because you did, in fact, read it, just within another program. Topics are marked as read in the database and aren't tied to the browser in any way.