Track read/unread state of discussions and expose in UI

[ewinslow]

It would be nice to see at a glance which new discussions are available.

One rub that I've noticed with other forum stuff though is that if you read a discussion in email it still shows as unread in the web view. I'd want to send a tiny 1x1 IMG tag or something that marks the comment/discussion as read when you open the email so that it stays in sync when you come to the web view.

Could say the same for blogs plugin comments, etc. Really any entity that is "post-like" with readable content.

[hypeJunction]

Read a great suggestion somewhere that instead of implementing complex db
solutions people should go back to using :visited style and marking
visited links in different color.
On Aug 13, 2015 1:48 AM, "Evan Winslow" notifications@github.com wrote:

It would be nice to see at a glance which new discussions are available.

One rub that I've noticed with other forum stuff though is that if you
read a discussion in email it still shows as unread in the web view. I'd
want to send a tiny 1x1 IMG tag or something that marks the
comment/discussion as read when you open the email so that it stays in sync
when you come to the web view.

Could say the same for blogs plugin comments, etc. Really any entity that
is "post-like" with readable content.

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[ewinslow]

Clever, and generally I agree, but it doesn't address the issue of unread comments in a previously visited discussion page. Also, I want a way to mark as read a comment or discussion sent/read via email notification, not just visited on browser.

All that to say, yea, we shouldn't be overriding the :visited style of links. It's a usability accessibility thing....