I read Questions About The Notification System and tried pushing all the buttons I can find. But apparently there’s no way to mark a read article, or notification, as unread.
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I think you may be looking for the ‘defer’ button:
However, I think you need to turn the ability on in your Preferences->Interface page:
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Looks good. I was able to thus change notifications back to blue as a side effect. The only one I couldn’t change back to blue was a badge notification.
First time in software that I ever encountered an unmark as read button that needed to be enabled first!
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Admins can also enable the default other enable defer setting to “Enable defer topic functionality by default”, so this user preference is already enabled and you can opt-out instead of opting-in.
That said, this feature is so useful that it would make sense to be enabled by default on a new install IMHO.
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You may also be interested in bookmarks — you can make these re-notify you in the future, including (if you want) a reason why.
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Out of curiosity, what social networks or discussion software (we can include chat-oriented software, but not email clients, which all have this feature) do you know that have a default setting to mark a post as unread?
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I am saying “that allow a user to toggle a post’s read status.”
I am saying it seems to new users that once a post has been read in Discourse, its status is set in stone.
Because no user would have dreamed that “only hacker users would need a toggle status button, so that’s why one must opt-in deep in Preferences.”
Yes, it is hard to explain.
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I think it might be more helpful if you could focus on your own experience and impressions rather than sweeping claims about worldwide end users, new users, no users, etc.
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