Forum "Mark forums read" link

[rlm850]

It only works on the homepage of the forums. Not by forum individually. Don't know if it's intended with phpbb3 or not but I haven't seen it work that way strictly on any other forum system.

EDIT: and by that, I don't mean my forums. I mean the NFo forums.

[TimeX]

Are you saying that clicking it doesn't actually mark everything as read, or that you can't use it to mark specific areas as read and it only works globally?

[rlm850]

Lets say I view the forums, and I go to a forum category. "Mark forums read" doesn't work.

Lets say I view the forums and stay on the homepage of them. "Mark forums read" clears them all.

Should it not work per-category as well?

[TimeX]

In that case, I think it should. I'll have to test that myself when I have a chance.

[Edge100x]

It's supposed to do all of them, I believe.

[TimeX]

I just tested this with the general section when I saw a reply here, and it worked fine for me.

[rlm850]

Different permissions? Still not working correctly for me

[TimeX]

That is possible, but it may also be a browser related issue. Do you have another browser or computer you can test on?

[rlm850]

No IE removed as an OS addon and only use chrome as much as I hate it, for the bookmarking specs.

[TimeX]

IE normally can't be completely removed, Windows will just remove shortcuts for it instead. You should be able to find IE in your files somewhere.

[rustydusty1717]

There is ways to remove IE, and it's found in control panel, under uninstall Windows addons.

[TimeX]

I will admit that it has been some time since I tried that myself, but the last time I did, it only really removed the shortcuts and didn't actually uninstall IE. This made some sense to me since IE is more than just a browser for Windows and a number of functions within Windows depends on it.

[rustydusty1717]

I believe that's all I did, and no more IE for me (thankfully). Windows asking to install new IE, security updates for IE all the time was quite annoying. No more of that though .

[rlm850]

I forgot all about this thread.

But no, I've always removed IE and only stuck to one browser because some of my programs tend to randomly switch default browsers.

I know when it's always removed by trying "iexplore" in a run prompt.

[kraze]

I also tested this and it does seem to only work on the main page. However it does mark every topic even the ones with sub categories as read also.