# What should be used for a "you read this" indicator on each post?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Maio 31, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-should-be-used-for-a-you-read-this-indicator-on-each-post/16125 "2014-05-31T04:37:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\
**Post date:** [Maio 31, 2014, 6:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-should-be-used-for-a-you-read-this-indicator-on-each-post/16125/3 "2014-05-31T06:30:37Z")

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I like where you’re headed.

How about a small blue dot, which means “unread / unviewed”… and it disappears after its viewed?

That would kind of tie in nicely to the blue indicators in the topic list to show the number of new unread posts…

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