Old unread topic doesn’t show up as unread in tracked category

[david (David Taylor)]

This sounds similar to what I reported before. I think the problem boils down to:

• Even though it’s implicitly tracked, topic does not show up in unread because the user has never viewed it
• Topic does not show up in new because it is beyond the threshold of whatever your “Consider topics new when” setting is

See:

Watching/Tracking old Topics

Thanks for taking the time to look at this. The settings on my account are the same as the defaults for all our users - consider new when “haven’t viewed them yet”. I suspect the reason that the topics aren’t all showing up in “new” is because all the users have their “first_seen_at” field set to the date of the import, and therefore after the topic was initially created. So I think the problem is: Topic does not show up in “new” because it was created before the user first visited the forum …

and:

Spooky tracking happenings

This is something I found a while ago, and a thread can be found here (not entirely sure why it got moved from bug to feature). The thread is quite confusing as I originally thought the problem was caused by the initial import from phpBB. So here’s an attempt to summarise: It comes down to the fact that a topic cannot be both new and unread simultaneously: Even though it’s implicitly tracked, topic does not show up in unread because the user has never viewed it Topic does not show up in new …