Mark All Read

Rick Ausdahl · 2024-11-22T15:47:14+00:00

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Is there a way to mark all threads in a forum as read?

Doing so was a piece of cake in the old forum and very useful for filtering out threads/topics a person wasn't interested in. In the old forum, unread threads that were new or recently commented on were displayed in bold. Marking them as read would remove the bold highlighting.

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Jason Stone (Logos)

Is there a way to mark all threads in a forum as read?

There is not at this time, but we have collected that feedback and are investigating a solution here.

In addition to what @Thomas Glen Leo pointed out, I'd also point you to your "Followed Content" as that shows you only content that you are following.

Here's a direct link: https://community.logos.com/profile/followed-content

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Thomas Glen Leo

The new thread titles are bolded for me when there's new content, and unbolded when I've read the latest. All that's here. Plus it shows how many "new" (whether just comments or also reactions, I haven't yet confirmed).

Jason Stone (Logos)

Is there a way to mark all threads in a forum as read?

There is not at this time, but we have collected that feedback and are investigating a solution here.

In addition to what @Thomas Glen Leo pointed out, I'd also point you to your "Followed Content" as that shows you only content that you are following.

Here's a direct link: https://community.logos.com/profile/followed-content

Rick Ausdahl

Thanks, Jason.

Per Thomas' reply, yes… that's how the old forum worked as well—i.e. reading a thread one was interested in would "unbold" the title of that particular thread. But if only interested in one, or a few threads, the option to mark all the other threads as "read" with a single click, was a huge convenience in unbolding all the other thread titles to visually get them off your radar.

The "follow" option on the new forum can help, but that requires a person to mark every thread they're interested in. And while I haven't played with it yet, I assume that also means drilling down to select a "follow" filter of some sort in order to see them. The problem is, you'll still want to be able to "see" new threads in order to know if you want to "follow" them.

At this point, I realize it will take some time to adjust to how the new forum works and that I may just not yet have figured out how to easily accomplish what was easy on the old forum.

danwdoo

Please, please, please add a mark all as read to make it easier to scan for what is new and what I want to ignore because it's not a topic I want to see/continue.

Jack Caviness

Leaving that feature out was a serious oversight that can only result in chaos.

Kevin A. Purcell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1344038#Comment_1344038

Muey Muey NOT Bueno! We really need this feature to make them functional. I relied on that a lot.

Mattillo

I agree. I have no idea where to start after coming back to the new system. Maybe I'm old but this is overwhelming. I wish I could mark all as read and start fresh

Jason Stone (Logos)

Great feedback! We will continue to seek out a solution here. Thank you for your patience!

danwdoo

I would love to be able to come to the forums each day and have a filter set to only show posts with unread messages since my last visit. I can then read through all that are of interest to me and then mark everything as read (which with the filter results in all being hidden). Then the next time I come back I again only see the unread posts since my last visit. Simple and efficient. This would be a super helpful addition.

Jason Stone (Logos)

I would love to be able to come to the forums each day and have a filter set to only show posts with unread messages since my last visit.

@danwdoo We will continue to look into the best way to make use of read/unread posts. Thank you!

tjebme

Agree. Please provide an option to mark all as read. Thx.

Jack Caviness

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1353202#Comment_1353202

Please!!

John Fidel

me too!

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1353202#Comment_1353202

It's available if you are using the notifications list

Kevin A. Purcell

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1353299#Comment_1353299

That's an interim option but not a real equivalent to what we had before in the old forum software. We need a mark read for each section or forum and a physical indicator of what's new and what's marked read.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1353315#Comment_1353315

I agree its not the same. There is also a new flag in the forum in list all format but you have to train your eyes to see it. I use it before marking all as read as the notifications always miss part of the morning before I'm up.

Why is this thread marked 'answered' when it actually hasn't been, except to say the function might be coming sometime?

I've found that using 'Mark All Read' under the notification bell makes not one whit of difference. Everything stays right there in the notification list unchanged, and everything in the All Recent Posts stays there unchanged as well. The only way I can read this site anymore is to remove every notification there is under my settings, go to the All Recent Posts page, and scroll through the list. I am not busy, so this works for me, even though it's not nearly as easy and convenient as the old site. But I'm a Free Version user, so probably not the target audience anyway. All good, no worries. I just like reading these messages for some strange reason.

GregW

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1353299#Comment_1353299

Not quite. Once read they don’t disappear from the notifications list immediately. The beauty of the “Posts not read” on the old forums was that, once you’d read it, it disappeared. That was a much “cleaner” way of presenting me with the stuff to read. I used to mark all as read in the forums that didn’t interest me (Korean, Chinese, etc), then use the “posts not read” as my way of looking to see if there was anything of interest. There’s nothing quite like that on the new forums, and it has certainly more than halved the number of times a week I visit. Also, on my ipad, the bolding of unread posts isn’t clearly distinguishable from the posts I’ve read - I have to look carefully to see if it’s bold or not. That might be largely to do with my eyesight of course. Until there’s a way of making a thread disappear once I’ve read the latest contribution I don’t have the time to spend on looking for what I will be interested in.

MJ. Smith

I actually prefer that it is only the blue dot that disappears - it makes it easier to find if a subsequent post makes me want to reread or respond to it.