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Randomly resetting "last visited" date/time

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wpcoe

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This has frustrated me for probably the better part of the year.

I don't get to log on nearly as often as I'd like to. I find the AnandTech forums a great way to catch up on computer technology, but keep getting hamstrung by the forum software.

It resets my "You last visited" date/time to some random recent time when I log on. Sometimes, it may be a couple months since I visit and I really don't have a clear idea of when I last read posts.

e.g. It may have been 4-6 weeks since my last visit before I logged on today @ approx 940pm local time. The forum says I last visited "Today at 610pm." I wasn't even ONLINE at that time.

So every message thread in every section has the last-read date/time reset so I have no clue what threads I've already read, which messages I have not read, etc.

This has occurred the last several times I've logged on. Maybe since the first of the year?

FRUSTRATING!!!!
 
While on the topic of "last visited," why does the forum software (presumably WAD?) set ALL forums to be shown as "read" when I only visit a single forum?

e.g. Last night at 1050pm, I visited this forum section to see if any reply had been posted. That action set all the other sections to show all messages read as of 1050pm last night, when I never visited any of those sections.
 
Heaps of the latest technology news with intelligent in-depth discussion so close to my fingertips, but so painfully difficult to sort through.

A forum dedicated to technology unable to investigate, much less address, an apparent bug that affects a mere user. <sigh...>

It was fun (and educational!) while it lasted, but this forum is simply not reasonably functional to me any more. Buh-bye!
 
A table to support what you ask would have 658,410,856,609 rows (as of right now). That is kind of a lot. Sorry that the 'last read' feature doesn't fit you needs.
 
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