# Persistent unread post for certain topics
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-unread-post-for-certain-topics/38174
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2016年一月19日 12:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-unread-post-for-certain-topics/38174 "2016-01-19T12:44:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)
#### Post date: [2016年一月19日 12:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-unread-post-for-certain-topics/38174/1 "2016-01-19T12:44:27Z")
Hey Discourse,
For this particular topic:
> [@MOSS Roadmap - Mailing lists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moss-roadmap-mailing-lists/36432/16):
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> Would love to see an importer for Google Groups mailing lists too, but scraping out Groups content looks to be a bit messy. There is [a bash script for generating an mbox from a Google Group](https://github.com/icy/google-group-crawler) which works with a bit of fiddling (need a cookie file to get emails). It also has options for picking up new posts which helps in mirroring, though i haven’t tried it. Perhaps that would be an approach if mbox imports were rock solid and repeatable. Also, would the mbox approach allow for importing into a…
Every time there is new content, I visit the thread, read it, and then am presented with this ‘old’ unread notification:
This unread topic persists no matter how many times I subsequently visit the topic. It also keeps my unread thread count at (1), which makes me sad.
Not sure that I can provide more detailed repro steps than ‘visit a certain topic with new content, read all new content, experience 1 persistent grey unread post’, but should be able to diagnose what’s going on from my `TopicUser` for that topic here on meta.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [2016年一月19日 13:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-unread-post-for-certain-topics/38174/2 "2016-01-19T13:06:33Z")
This is due to the usage of Whispers, there are multiple topics about it already.
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [2016年一月19日 13:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-unread-post-for-certain-topics/38174/3 "2016-01-19T13:27:21Z")
Here are some of the topic covering this:
> [@Cannot get this topic out of my unread list due to whispers](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-get-this-topic-out-of-my-unread-list-due-to-whispers/37837):
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> This topic says there are 2 unread posts in it, but I can’t find them. I’ve scrolled through the entire thing. I’m guessing there are either deleted posts or whisper posts in it… The URL changes from /44 to /42 after I click on it in the topic list. I haven’t tried to do “dismiss unread” yet in case it’s helpful to leave it in this state to get more info before I attempt that.
> [@Unread old post bug?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unread-old-post-bug/36533/3):
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> Ah i see i get it, the Secrecy is real ;).
There’s a workaround:
> [@Cannot get this topic out of my unread list due to whispers](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-get-this-topic-out-of-my-unread-list-due-to-whispers/37837/5):
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> The “fix” is to reply to the topic yourself in public (or get someone else to) so the topic does not end on a whisper.
You can also dismiss the topic from your Unread tab.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2016年一月19日 14:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-unread-post-for-certain-topics/38174/4 "2016-01-19T14:38:03Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2016年十二月5日 08:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persistent-unread-post-for-certain-topics/38174/5 "2016-12-05T08:08:20Z")
This is now [fixed in latest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-term-whisper-posts-on-topics/45057/10) courtesy of @sam