# "USER split this topic" makes topic forever "un-visited"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-split-this-topic-makes-topic-forever-un-visited/36558
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [December 11, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-split-this-topic-makes-topic-forever-un-visited/36558 "2015-12-11T10:19:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Tom\_Newsom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tom_newsom/32/115981_2.png) [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-split-this-topic-makes-topic-forever-un-visited/36558/1 "2015-12-11T10:19:50Z")

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This topic got off-topic, so I split the the posts to a new topic.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/c/7c14c319ff7ed824e7c29ea47b1c76863801692d.png)

Here you can see the new topic is greyed out with `class="title visited"` because I’ve read it all. The parent topic is still black, with `class="title"`

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/e/bee8bb15368ae54ccf11afddb948d42dc4844751.png)

Doesn’t matter how many times I go into the parent topic to read it, it remains black in the Latest view. This is the case with any topic that’s had posts forked to a new topic. Here’s an old one:

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/3X/b/6/b6872a7bd3fe2e328ca29b2148b0d19394adda67_2_690x50.png)

However, if I delete the “user split this topic” post, then the title goes grey as expected.

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/optimized/3X/6/9/697e1c7b0223a304763337836a4806761372ab26_2_690x45.png)

Feels like the “USER split this topic x minutes ago” admin post doesn’t track its own read status?

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2015, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-split-this-topic-makes-topic-forever-un-visited/36558/2 "2015-12-11T10:56:05Z")

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This is a known issue (cf. whisper messages). Will require a huge refactor to handle properly.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-split-this-topic-makes-topic-forever-un-visited/36558/3 "2016-12-05T08:08:31Z")

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This is now [fixed in latest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/long-term-whisper-posts-on-topics/45057/10) courtesy of @sam