mark channel read?

[Rich Goldstein]

In the "general" forum, there is a button to "mark this channel as read" which I find very useful; however, I don't see a similar button for the "using the forum" channel; should there be (and did I do something to lose it ) and if so how do I get it back; if there isn't anything, can one be added please?

Rich

[Richard Williams]

I can't find this "mark channel read" button anywhere. If I could, what would it do? Mark every post in the forum as read? (What is a channel, anyway? Another word for forum?)

[Rich Goldstein]

yes, channel appears to be the same as forum; and yes, it marks every post as read (there are a sizable number of posts that I don't want to read so I don't want them bolded)

Rich

[Richard Williams]

That does sound useful. So, for those of you with the superhuman powers to see this button, where is it at? Maybe I am just looking in the wrong place.

[Dirk Enzmann]

As to the forums for discussing Stata ("General" and "Mata") the "mark as read"-button appears on top right of the "header" (next to "filter"):

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However, there is no such button at the forums for learning to use the Forum software ("Using the Forum" and "Sandbox"):

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[Richard Williams]

Thanks. Maybe there is some sort of random assignment process going on. I see it for Mata and Sandbox but not the other two forums.

[Roberto Ferrer]

I see it only for General and Mata.

[Dirk Enzmann]

Strange, because for me it does not change since I recognized the buttons the first time. However, irregular behavior has been noticed earlier, see the topic started "Mark this channel as read" by Philip Jones.

I did some experiments and it seems that whether buttons are visible or not does not depend on whether all posts are already marked as read or not.