amalg reported an issue in Discourse 2.4.0.beta2 where all topics appear bold and marked as “unread” on first visit or after logging in, even though reloading doesn’t fix it — only navigating into a topic and returning does. The issue persisted across browsers and devices, despite rebuilding the app. eviltrout asked about theme components, to which amalg replied none were installed, though the forum originally used the “shades of blue” theme (later switched to “light”), with the problem existing since inception. amalg shared a video demonstrating the issue and discovered the fix: rerunning the setup wizard and changing the homepage setting from “categories and topics” to “Latest Topics” resolved the problem, suggesting the bug is tied to that specific homepage configuration.
and I’ve noticed after I log in to the site or visit it for the first time in a while, all topics appear bold and “unread”. Reloading the page does not fix this, however clicking into a topic and going back from there does fix it.. truly unread topics are bold and read topics are normal.
I’ve rebuilt the app several times, used different browsers, and even tried on my mobile, the the result is the same. Any ideas?
No theme components are installed, but I did initially wizard the forum to use the “shades of blue” theme. I recently changed to the “light” theme, but the problem has always been since inception with the “shades of blue” theme.
However I ran through the wizard again and set “homepage” option to just show Latest Topics and it now works fine. I think it has to do with the homepage setting I had which was categories and topics.
