Is there a way of doing this as on the old forum?
No. The software which the forum team have chosen to ‘drive’ the new forum is a bag of poo, so it can’t do some of the basic things which other forum software can - such as ‘intelligently’ knowing which posts you have and haven’t read. As far as I can see, the only way it ‘knows’ when you were last logged in (and therefore which posts it needs to show you in a ‘posts you haven’t read’ search filtered to show only posts since your last visit) is by setting a cookie in your browser. Even that doesn’t seem to work consistently, and it’s useless if you move from computer to computer.
Posts you have not read is stored in the database, and is kept with your account, not in a cookie.
You are able to view unread posts in various forms - all unread posts, since last visit, within 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 1 week, right up to 1 year - which the old forum did not do.
This certainly is not an area where to forum falls short in my opinion, but rather hugely expands.
However, there is no way to mark all posts as read at present - but by using the above options (all found in a drop down box at the top of the unread posts page), it is not needed.
Sorry, I was a bit unclear. What I was saying is that the cookie is set to tell the forum software when you last logged in (not to tell it what you have or haven’t read). Most other forum software has a flag on a member’s profile with the last login time - that’s how they don’t get confused when you move from one computer to another, unlike this one which suddenly starts thinking that your most recent visit was the last one you made from the computer you’re currently using.
Cool, I get what you mean now.
Personally, I always look at all unread posts so I’ve never noticed as I’ve went between PCs.
I’ve had wee look, and there looks to be a bug in the software -
If you login, and click “edit profile”, then “passwords and statistics”, the date of last login does not seem to change, but last visit does, so it should be able to use that.