I read a new topic and wanted to see it fresh tomorrow morning. I selected the defer option, expecting it to also mark the topic as new again since it only had the one post, but this did not happen. I suppose a topic reminder would be best for this, but I’m curious if people think it should also have marked the topic as new in this case.
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The discussion revolves around whether deferring a topic with only one post should mark it as new again. seanblue reports that deferring such a topic does not add it back to the new section or immediately show the blue dot, despite the expectation that it should. sam confirms the feature should mark the topic as new but acknowledges a potential bug, noting the blue dot appears after a refresh but the topic doesn’t reappear in the new section. rahim123 argues that the defer button should consistently mark untracked topics as new, regardless of post count, and update both the new and latest lists. sam admits the issue remains unresolved and has tagged it as pr-welcome for community contributions.
This is @sam’s functionality so your question should be directed to him.
I does mark the topic as new… I just tested it, I sometimes defer 1 post topics
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Hmm I don’t see that happening. At the very least, it doesn’t reappear in https://meta.discourse.org/new.
For example, after deferring the below topic it is clearly stylized as unread, but it doesn’t have the blue dot and it doesn’t appear in my new section. Maybe I worded my original comment poorly.
Try expanding your consider topics new timespan in user settings
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I changed it to a week and that didn’t help (if it’s retroactive). The topic was already within the two day timeframe (my previous setting) anyway. I’ll try with more topics later.
I just tried again with a 40 minute old topic and it still doesn’t do what I’d expect.
- The blue dot does actually appear, but I didn’t notice it because it doesn’t happen right away. I have to refresh to get the blue dot to appear.
- The deferred topic doesn’t get added back to https://meta.discourse.org/new. This was the intent of my original question (though I obviously didn’t mention it explicitly). Should it get added back there? The inconsistency is a little weird, because right now I can scroll to see 5 topics with blue dots, but the New section only has 4 topics.
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My guess here is that something about topic user is not quite right, will have a look, but it will probably take a few weeks.
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I am sorry, I never got to this, I know it can be a tiny bit glitchy, putting pr-welcome on it in case someone wants to fix this issue.
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In the case of untracked topics I think the Defer button should mark it as new (it should appear in /new) no matter how many posts it has. I think it should also add the “new” dot in the /latest list too. Currently it seems like the only thing that the Defer button does for untracked topics is change the link color in topic lists to the unvisited color.
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