Mark All Read...

Mark all as read - for forum topics or messages?

Forum topics! 

We do not allow our website members to use private messages (In the interests of education and transparency we want all of their issues and concerns to be public - not whispered amongst themselves)

The forum topics are automatically read when the user session expires and calculated again from the last logged in session. But anyway, to let you know, I am already in the process of creating new system for accurately read receipts of each topic (like phpbb by storing state in database) which would address this also.

Our latest user request is for a user to be able to check the main forum page (we use the category list) and see which categories have new content that THEY haven't read yet. ( they are only interested in a couple of our categories, and complain it's too much trouble to check them all one at a time...)

The new feature with read status in database tables which I am working on should solve this issue.