[Administrator]

OOPs - almost forgot who I was!!

Here's the deal...

With cookie based, you have to either hit "mark threads as read" to mark threads read, or you have to stay on the last page of the thread for x amount of time to have it marked as read. The information is stored on your computer in a cookie.

With database method, it marks them as read when you view the posts. So if you go to page three of a thread with three pages, all posts are marked as read on that thread, regardless of the time spent. So conceivably, you may only read the first post on page three, but all posts will still be marked as read. There is still a cookie from us, but it does not contain post-read information. It contains your login info, but only if you check the box to keep you logged in.

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Keep in mind that you may still have to hit refresh after going to the "New Posts" to get an accurate list. This is because we currently have the "no-cache" option turned OFF. Turning this ON would force your browser to get a new copy of each page every time you navigate to a different page. This would considerably increase bandwidth and server load so we have followed the recommendations of vBulletin and currently have it turned off. It is fairly easy to just hit REFRESH (on your browser) on pages you want to refresh.