Unread posts issues
Posted: 26 Apr 2022
There is a big issue in this forum when using the "Unread posts" feature.
Here is a concrete example:
- I select "Quick links / Unread posts"
- I get a page of 25 results and it tells me there are 32 posts
- I read one post on page 1
- Now I select [page 2]
- It displays page 2 and it says there are 31 posts (since I read one)
- But the issue is that what used to be the first post of page 2 (when I got the first page of result) is now the last post of page 1 or in other words when I display page 2, I am missing one post (which is now on page 1)
I think this is a very bad behavior. The list that gets generated (in this instance 32 posts) should not change as you navigate from page to page while reading posts. I have always suspected I missed some posts, but now I understand why...
Here is a concrete example:
- I select "Quick links / Unread posts"
- I get a page of 25 results and it tells me there are 32 posts
- I read one post on page 1
- Now I select [page 2]
- It displays page 2 and it says there are 31 posts (since I read one)
- But the issue is that what used to be the first post of page 2 (when I got the first page of result) is now the last post of page 1 or in other words when I display page 2, I am missing one post (which is now on page 1)
I think this is a very bad behavior. The list that gets generated (in this instance 32 posts) should not change as you navigate from page to page while reading posts. I have always suspected I missed some posts, but now I understand why...