Restore "Mark All Read" for the entire community

Rocket J Squirrel

The ability to mark sets of posts as read is currently buried at the Category level.

It would be helpful to have a global Mark All Read for the entire forum.

MHSwizzleStick

I used the global "Mark all read" daily on the old interface. It is sorely missed.

NotACPA

MHSwizzleStick said:

I used the global "Mark all read" daily on the old interface. It is sorely missed.

I suspect that ALL of the SuperUsers did also.  Nice to hear that a non-SU did also.

Chris_QPW

I want to state that this is having a direct impact on my ability to provide help.

I almost missed a follow up question to a question basically only I could answer because I thought I had scanned through several pages of mixed read/not read, and didn’t go far enough back.  And this isn’t the first time this has happened to me.

Yes I guess I could do workarounds like bookmarking every thread I reply on, but I like to keep my bookmarks down to a small amount that I’m “really interested in”.

In a way I guess it doesn’t matter that much, because more and more I’m looking at the threads and I don’t even want to look at them because there is basically nothing that any user can help with except the recommending the standard “hammers” like reset this or that, for a problem that probably will be back in short time because the real cause is never fixed.  All of these “connected services” that “half work”.

Ps56k2

yup - this is a biffy for those that want to browse, scan, look for new postings -
and then MARK ALL AS READ - and then out the door

jacobs

Since I have Recent Discussions set to show the categories I'm following, I have taken to opening the threads I don't want to read in new tabs and then quickly closing them, so they're all "read" for the next time I come back to the site. It's effective… but not efficient. 

Someone from Quicken posted elsewhere that Vanilla is working on developing the Mark All As Read functionality, but that it would take some time. (Why they need to develop a feature they had on the previous generation template is beyond me; I'm just reporting what the Quicken folks said about this.)

Rocket J Squirrel

We really really need this feature. We used to have it! It was taken away! Please get Vanilla to restore it!

@Quicken Kathryn

Rocket J Squirrel

Please please please restore this feature!

I will give one free virtual donut for every vote!

Greg_the_Geek

+! I hate having to go to All Categories and marking each All Read!

Rocket J Squirrel

Bump.

smayer97

I see it on my drop down menu.

Rocket J Squirrel

smayer97 said:

I see it on my drop down menu.

I don't. Could you please capture a screen shot?

Ps56k2

I think we are talking about a "missing" forum command to mark ALL postings everywhere as Read

vs the profile "bell" drop down and the Mark All Read at the bottom...

smayer97

Ps56k2 said:

I think we are talking about a "missing" forum command to mark ALL postings everywhere as Read

vs the profile "bell" drop down and the Mark All Read at the bottom...

Yes, I am referring to the latter. Sorry if you meant something else.

Rocket J Squirrel

The item at the bottom of the bell menu is "mark all notifications read." It only clears the items under the bell. This suggestion is to mark all posts read.

jacobs

Sarah said in a different thread back in late April that Vanilla had agreed to develop this, but that it would be "some time" until it surfaced. At the speed Vanilla has responded to other issues, I'm guessing "some time" is a lot longer than 3-4 months.

smayer97

Taking months to "develop" something that already existed but was simply removed... hmmm  :-\

Rocket J Squirrel

Bump.

Rocket J Squirrel

Gimme a B! Gimme a U! Gimme an M! Gimme a P! What's that spell?

Greg_the_Geek

BUMP!!!

Rocket J Squirrel

Bumpity bump bump. We really need this. Admins please ask Vanilla to restore this function which used to exist.

Rocket J Squirrel

Yup, another annoying bump. I'll stop the annoying bumps as soon as this feature is restored!

Rocket J Squirrel

I'm starting to annoy even myself with these bumps.