XF 1.5 Go to First Unread

[Joe Blow]

A forum user has reported the following issue:

At the end of some pages is a button:

It's current functionality is to potentially take you up the page to the first unread post with a 'New' tag.

However, what it doesn't do is to take you to your actual last unread post, unless it happens to be on the current page. Should you have 5 unread posts on a thread, and post 5 spills over onto a new page this button should take you back to the previous page to show you your first unread post. Right now, it doesn't do that.

Is this normal behavior for the "Go to First Unread" button or is there something wrong with my settings/installation?

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Mike]

It sounds like the user is expecting it to do something that is really beyond it's scope. Specifically, we only track the last read position for a thread. So when they say this:

...this button should take you back to the previous page to show you your first unread post.

The button would never take you back to a previous page, because if you go to page 10, it will assume that you have already read everything from page 9 and earlier (and in the DB, everything from page 10 is marked as read at this point too).

However, if you got to page 1 and the first unread item is on page 5, it will jump you to page 5.

 

[Joe Blow]

OK, thanks Mike. I think you're right. It sounds like user confusion.