Randomly resetting "last visited" date/time

[wpcoe]

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!!!!

 

[wpcoe]

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.

 

[wpcoe]

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!

 

[Evadman]

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.