Mark Forum as Read - changing forums to be marked as Unread

I couldn't replicate that. I visited all the of the threads in the Games tavern section and they are all still unread for me.

Although, I had other unread threads in the whole Games Tavern forum. When I marked the whole Games Tavern as read, then the front page became read.

Then I tried marking the Test thread as unread and nothing changed. It stayed as read.

Weird, that's on the front page. But in the Games Tavern forum, it is in fact marked as read unread (edit:typo).

Current Front Page:


Games Tavern forum:

Ok, lets ignore the front page for a sec: do the forums seem to be working? I'll address the home page next.

I can't replicate the problem on staging so far. I'm also not having the issue with the main page described above, for some reason. (My tag of ":O" on (Test) seems very appropriate. :D)

I did experience one weird occurrence on staging: Games Tavern forum was marked as read for me, but it had an unread thread in it (some random one, I have no idea why this one was specifically unread when others weren't). Upon visiting the thread it did get marked as read correctly and nothing changed with the forum. It only happened once, so maybe just some weird lingering data

Edit: also, this thread here was marked read for me after posting, but after a while randomly became unread. Prod's being weird. :D

Ignoring the behavior on the front page, I think individual forums are working as expected for me, re: marking unread properly and then being marked read after I visit.

They are not for me. Everything shows unread, including forums that haven't been used in over six months.

I put the latest copy of prod onto staging as well as a bunch of new code that should address the read/unread issue as well as the home page showing different read/unread statuses than the forum pages. The home page may work a bit better as well, but that'll be incidental. I'll focus on the home page more once I get these issues resolved. Please take a look.

For me, site is now faster than it's ever been, by a considerable margin.

Home page loads after 2-3 seconds. Other links load almost instantly.

Staging forums are working as expected for me. Marked as read after visiting a thread and unread after marking as unread are both working. I ignored the front page for now. And it seems really fast too!

Prod seems considerably faster for me now too

Everything seems to be working on staging, even the home page.

There was still a strangeness with the Roleplay Archive sub-forum where the thread I read from the middle of, on prod, and had that thread (and therefore the sub-forum) appear unread, was still showing as unread. But it is still marked that way on prod, so that came with the data? Some data may be messed up, but this is why I stopped fiddling with the Mark as Read button on prod. :)

Simply reading the above thread immediately fixed it. All looks good. I have not been able to make anything break.

Everything is working fine for me, except one thing: when I open a read thread on a specific numbered page, it gets marked unread.
Edit: this only happens when I open the page from the forum view. If I change pages from the thread itself, it remains read.
Edit 2: also, it only happens with non-game forums.

It seems generally really inconsistent since I can get it to happen with some threads and can't with others, so might be just prod data messing with stuff?
Edit 3: I can't recreate it with a new thread, so probably the old data.

That is what I experienced. I never got it to work with page numbers, but only when opening a thread to a particular posts in the middle. The whole thread was then marked as unread. This happened in game subforums. This happened on both staging and prod, but I have not been able to do it again on staging.

Is it worth pushing her be code to prod and seeing if the bug continues?

It's likely just the data inconsistency, so probably yes? (And even if it remains, it's probably not a big enough issue to delay the update for.)

I pushed the code to prod

Read/unread on search is broken...

Forums showing new entries in Game Forum seems to be working, thank you.

Because of the update on read/unread posts, some folks are going to have broken threads until they mark forums as read. I can help by:
1) encouraging everyone to mark the root forum as read, and then marking threads they want to watch as unread
2) removing all thread read data, which would make all threads folks have previous gone to marked unread, which they can visit and mark read
3) remove all read data, giving everyone a clean slate to start from
Or mark everyone as read everywhere, but I don't feel like that's a viable option