The forum design is to use post numbers 1 to 1,000,000, ... |
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By Zanzibar on 09:44:24 04/05/24 [In reply to "I've had some weird things recently where it marks a post as read, but I haven't clicked on it yet. *" by BlainetheTrain, posted at 08:26:41 04/05/24] ... the theory being that by the time you get to 1,000,000, post #1 is many years old -- long gone from the forum index or your browser's history -- and the number can be reused. But if the forum is reset, then (depending on what the initial post number is set to) the system may re-use post numbers more quickly. If a post number is re-used before your browser ages out the history of you having visited it, you can see posts that are incorrectly marked read. I've had to reset the forum a couple of times as our Amazon server ran out of disk space. The first time I just cleaned up some log files, but that did not last for very long. The second time, I expanded our server's disk space from 8gb to 100gb, which should prevent us from running out ever again.
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