Solved New Indicator

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This seems to be a never-ending problem. The issue is interrelated with Kunena sessions and Joomla sessions and the fact that, when you use the browser back button, Joomla behaviour is to not perform a page refresh. And there are probably other causes surrounding this baffling mystery.

The problem that we're going to have dealing with your problem, Doug, is the "sometimes" aspect. Does this ^NEW indicator issue manifest itself only under certain conditions. For example, if you've read a topic and then navigate back to the index, what happens if you then perform a page reload/refresh? Also, is this behaviour confined to a certain web browser(s)?

I think we fixed the issue here at this website but "sometimes" the ^NEW indicator issue occurs here, for me, too (particularly if I'm using Safari on my iPad.

Hi,

I looked around and while there have been posts about this topic, I cannot seem to find the solution. Is there any way to make the New Posts indicator not reset after the Kunena session expires? I have it set to 6 hours, but if the user starts reading a category, then leaves for a while, and then comes back after the session expires, the posts that used to be marked new are now unmarked, even though they didn't read them.

Is there a setting that will keep a post marked "unread" until the user either reads it or marks a topic read?

I am running Kunena 2.0.4

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Kunena version detailed: Kunena 2.0.4 | 2013-01-18 [ Pharmacopoeia ]
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*** Topics merged ***

The behaviour of the ^NEW indicator was changed in K 3.0. The recommendation of the team is to upgrade to K 3.0 to address these issues.