Marking posts as read
by Matt Fairfax · in Site Feedback · 02/20/2001 (8:00 am) · 2 replies
Would it be possible to make the mark as read be on a Forum by Forum basis (like Community, Businees, Technical,...)? I have seen this on other forums and it was very handy. Sometimes I can't read all of the posts on the whole board and when I come back I spend a long time clicking on posts I previously read trying to see if anything new has been added.
About the author
I am a Game Designer at PopCap who has worked on PvZ Adventures, PvZ2, Peggle Blast, and Bejeweled Skies. I am an ex-GarageGames employee who helped ship TGE, TGEA, Torque 3D, and Constructor.
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02/20/2001 (9:22 am)
That is the approach that the other messageboards I've seen take. It seems to work pretty well. The only drawback is when the user moves from machine to machine like from work to home. I personally do this and have enjoyed the data being held on the server but I understand not wanting to keep all those files in your database =) Maybe a middle ground approach would work best. Have the cookies on the users machine for the individual forums but also have a global Mark All As Read button that stores its info on the server like now. Whenever a user connects you could check the local cookies against the servers Mark All As Read data and if the server's data is more up to date then update the cookies. If not then leave it to the user to manually synch it himself. 
Torque Owner Rick Overman
I initially decided not to store read information for each forum because I did not want to have all those records in our database.
...But what if I just stored per forum read information as cookies on the client machine? It would be about 216 bytes of information.