Question about "View Unread Posts"

[Recyclersteve]

I use the RC site quite a bit and think that it is a fantastic place to go to laugh, cry and become informed.

One question that has bugged me a bit revolves around the area on the Home Page which says "View Unread Posts".

For me this shows 34 pages of unread items and I noticed that page 34 has 11 unread items on it. That's fine, but what I can't figure out is this. It is late at night and I'm sure there is very little activity right now. Yet, no matter how many of the unread posts I look at, it still shows 34 pages of unread posts with 11 items on the last page. For those posts with multiple pages of responses, I am careful to go to each of the pages for the particular thread.

What stumps me even more is that after reading a lot of items that 34th page shows 11 DIFFERENT items than it did before I was reading.

Is it possible that 34 pages is the most that the site will allow to be displayed due to system limitations and that in reality there might be hundreds of pages of unread items? In other words, is it possible that there are really perhaps 200 pages or more of unread items and I will have to read A LOT MORE before I can get the system to show less than 34 pages of unread items?

If anyone (administrators?) has any thoughts on this, I'd certainly appreciate it.

[natsb88]

There is probably an arbitrary limit to how many are listed when you run the View Unread Posts search. There are 209,000+ posts in 17,000+ threads, so there are bound to be a LOT of results.

If you just want currently active threads, use View New Posts instead of Unread Posts.

[Recyclersteve]

Thanks Nate!

[knibloe]

Steve's post got me thinking that I might want to go back and look at a lot of the posts that I skipped in the past. Over the last several weeks, I looked at all of the post between now and last July. Yesterday all of the posts that I read came back up as unread. Anyone know how this could happen??

[TXSTARFIRE]

I was unaware of the "View Unread Posts" option until this post back in December. Since the posting on Realcent has been kind of sparse lately I have also been reading all of the old posts. I have worked my way back to Feb of 2014. I have found a number of good items that I missed the first time around. About your question, don't have an answer, but all of my reading history stayed the same. I am still where I was a couple of days ago.

tt