[pescetom]

Is it just me, or has BBO Forum changed behaviour for some reason? I realise that the forum base is a legacy which nobody can improve.

Increasingly, perhaps systematically, when I click "View New Content" topics reappear that I have just read or just contributed to. Previously it was fairly certain that after reading the topic or contributing to it, once I hit "View New Content" the page would not reappear until somebody made a new post to it.
Now I seem to find the same topic time and time again. This is particular irritating in the current "Eternal September" when a multitude of new users are raising legitimate but mainly uninteresting topics. It is already quite bad enough that the forum never had the function to block a specific topic or forum.

I'm on the latest Chrome and Windows 10 if that matters.

[smerriman]

If you click your username at the top right and click My Settings, there's an option there to make View New Content either show posts since your last visit vs content that you haven't read.

Default has always been the former, so topics in the list stick around for a while until you aren't 'active', but perhaps you used to have it on the latter and it changed at some point.

[pescetom]

smerriman, on 2020-May-17, 15:57, said:

If you click your username at the top right and click My Settings, there's an option there to make View New Content either show posts since your last visit vs content that you haven't read.

Default has always been the former, so topics in the list stick around for a while until you aren't 'active', but perhaps you used to have it on the latter and it changed at some point.

I currently have it on "content that I have not read" and don't think I changed that recently. It is also the closest thing to the behaviour I want ("show me all content that I have not read or flagged as uninteresting").

But it is still showing me content that I have already read. Including this topic, even after I had read your message. It's as if it has stopped flagging anything as read.

I just clicked "Mark all items as read" and that cleared my page. I'll see which topics reappear now and how it behaves if I read them.

[barmar]

The forum software hasn't change. We're still running the same, incredibly out of date version of the software we've been running for years.

But something happened when the year changed -- it no longer saves layout changes. I used to hide the International Forum and the sidebar with "Recent Topics Added" and "Watched Content".

I assume this is a bug in the forum software that was triggered by the new year. But since we're running unsupported software, we can't report it to the vendor. And we don't have the resources to upgrade; we have a number of customizations that we were unable to migrate to the new version the last time we looked into it, and they don't provide support for customizations.

So we just live with the issues. Sorry.

[pescetom]

barmar, on 2020-May-18, 18:12, said:

The forum software hasn't change. We're still running the same, incredibly out of date version of the software we've been running for years.

I realise, that is why I was surprised.
But since I marked all as read it seems to be behaving, maybe I had a cookie in crisis for some reason or another.

barmar, on 2020-May-18, 18:12, said:

So we just live with the issues. Sorry.

The issue I always disliked most is the impossibility to show only new or followed topics (or even better, to hide deprecated topics/forums).
This is partially mitigated by 'My Content' to identify topics where I made a post, but only partially, especially in these days that topics flourish like mushrooms.