Yellow Highlight for unread posts not working

Horton

Yellow Highlight for unread posts not working. To test this I logged in as my "Test" user and found less than 10% of recent posts marked. As this is the account I only use for testing, every post should be marked Yellow.

So in other words some posts are getting the yellow highlight but most are not.

Horton

Furthermore I just created a new thread as a test from my "Test" account and when I logged in with my personal account it was not highlighted Yellow.

Horton

Looks like I have a bold vs un-bold instead of Yellow Highlight?

Tim

Yup! We're trying this as a new way of showing read/unread status. The reasoning was that when a new person joins the forum, they are not shown a sea of yellow boxes. Everything is new to them, so its less intimidating if things are just all bold instead of yellow.

Everyone has this right now.

Tim

The way it works is that if you've never read a thread, it will simply be bolded. No yellow box.

If there are no new posts in a thread, it will be unbolded.

If you've previously read the thread, but there are posts in it that are unread, it will be bold and show a yellow box telling you how many posts are new.

Horton

I prefer the old way.

Every time you guys make an unannounced changes it frustrates me and my users.

Horton

http://www.ballofspray.com/forum#/discussion/5241/where-is-the-darn-yellow-highlight-for-unread-posts

Lincoln

You're right, we need to do better about announcing changes to the UI in our releases. We messed up on this one, and this isn't the only complaint we had about an unannounced UI change in the last update.

We're still evaluating this change. I generally take the stance of "give it 2 weeks and see if you still hate it" because we all have a viscerally negative reaction to change, especially when it's something fundamental like this.

Horton

Well what is the deal. I am pretty sure my users would like it back the other way.

James_Puckett

This is a bad UI design decision. Type weights alone do not provide enough contrast to stand out within the complex hierarchy of a web forum. It takes too long to actually scan a list of posts, and consider the weights of the type in the headings rather than just looking for the yellow notices.

Lincoln

I'm not aware of any further decisions about this yet, however it's possible to re-add a yellow 'new' tag on all unread discussions.

This custom CSS rule will enable it:

.JustNew { display: inline; }

@Horton @James_Puckett I've added this to both your sites.