As some might know, lots of very old threads were still open, since they had been created before the automatic topic timer was introduced. After coming across the nth necroposted thread today, I looked at the situation, saw that threads can be sorted by latest activity, and this forum supports bulk-selecting and bulk-closing stuff. So I closed⌠well⌠all of them (and added a topic timer to a handful of old topics with recent posts)
Of course I couldnât look at every individual thread affected during this operation. If you know of any thread I just closed that should not have been closed, feel free to answer here or PM me .
It adds it to the "unread" list and gives a count of new replies (the blue bubbles) for people tracking it (which includes anyone who commented on it, read it for too long, or explicitly indicated they wanted to track (and didn't thereafter change it to not tracking)). I assume it would give a notification to anyone watching the thread (which is stronger than tracking it), but that may just be the thread creator.
I got a few "Latest" unread bubbles, but like, literally 14 and not hundreds for whatever reason. I just manually cleared them (but in case hundreds show up later, thanks for the tip @azriel91).
Ah, only now I understand what weâre talking about, itâs just that âUnreadâ tab (that has a number > 400 for me); I kind of never clicked on that thing, and never minded the blue bubbles much ; well, then it isnât quite as bad as I had initially understood, and that âDismissâ button seems straightforward to spot.
As far as I could tell, closing threads does not push them up on âLatestâ; thatâs something I made sure of before closing a lot of topics.
Regarding numbers⌠if I remember the dates correctly, it looks like new topics have topic timers since October 2019, so e.g. @quinedot thatâs a year after you joined here, which means that older users might have significantly higher numbers from engaging with more threads opened pre-late-2019. On the other hand, high numbers of unread posts is also something one would get by just stay away from the forum for a longer time, so itâs not an unusual experience, and itâs a one-time thing only now anyways ^^
I do keep my unread at 0, and just entered to 827! But at least there's a reasonable explanation... I'll dismiss them and hope there was nothing real mixed in.
If you sort the âUnreadâ tab by the âActivityâ column, all real activity should be displayed on top, right? Or does the closing affect those dates in the âActivityâ column? Is the âUnreadâ tab maybe even sorted this way by default?
(and added a topic timer to a handful of old topics with recent posts)
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; well, then it isnât quite as bad as I had initially understood, and that âDismissâ button seems straightforward to spot.
No worries.