As @ainsworth74 noted above, it is due to a bad redirection in place. For those of a technical bent, it's a HTTP 302 redirect in place for https://www.railforums.co.uk
The same is not in place for https://railforums.co.uk
Double-check that the address bar contains only https://railforums.co.uk rather than https://www.railforums.co.uk - keep in mind that many browsers auto-hide the www part.
Then once you’re in the forum don’t use the home button, as that still tries to go to www…
What is meant to by this exactly? The forum software has always marked a page as read when you open a thread, and continues to do so. We have not made any changes regarding the functionality of the forum.
Yes apologies for the disruption everyone. What effectively happened is we noticed an oversight from when the forum moved servers a while back, which is being corrected, but until everyone’s ISPs update, will lead to an error if you click on a link that was favourited.
Normally if I go from the list of threads within a forum, into a specific discussion, and then use a back button to return to the list, the thread I've just read is still in bold as if I hadn't visited it. However if instead of using the back button, I go to the full path at the top of the page and click on the forum address there, the listing appears with no bold text on the thread I've just visited.
No, Safari 15.6 on macOS 12.5 (Intel) is fine.
Thanks but I’m afraid it doesn’t, nothing has changed in this regard. It’s always marked the page as read. I’m wondering if the fact you believe it’s happening intermittently means you’re pressing back on a page that isn’t the most recent of the thread.
Sometimes it has indeed been the case that I've been using a "back" button without realising that I haven't reached the last page of the thread, but there have been very many cases when I have definitely reached the last page but going "back" hasn't removed the boldening from the thread title. It was so normal that I often clicked on the thread path at the top of the page instead of a back button, just so that it did take the boldening away from the title of the thread that I'd just read.
I keep having difficulty getting on the site. Something about too many redirects. I have browser set to delete all cookies when I close it.
Still not working for me, Safari on iPad. Hovering on either of the two home buttons just shows “rail forums.co.uk”, with no “https:” bit.
Chrome v92.0.4515.90 and iOS 12.5.5 on iPad here, and the Home link and logo are both giving
If you hit the back button then it would be a cached version of the page, so the thread would still be bolded. Perhaps the issue with the redirect caused the page to reload, so the thread title was displayed un-bolded.
Then the browser is hiding part of the URL since a complete URL must start with either http:// or https:// - if its hiding the protocol then it's likely also hiding the www. as well.
It's doing it to me as well... and I also prefer it. It's rather like it's auto refreshing the whole forum when we reverse out of a thread. Previously, had to press refresh for a thread to lose the bold... now it's doing it by itself.
Can I be the pedant this time. Other protocols can be specified in a URL, I do occasionally still come across ftp://.
You can. However, it's worth noting that support for ftp:// URLs has been dropped by most browsers.
Have you cleared cache? I just loaded the page in a new browser and the home button link has the www and it loads fine.
Ok now. I’d forgotten about the “advanced settings” website data. With that deleted for this site it’s fixed it.
I am still seeing it (again) at 18:28.
