This is a rather weird occurance -- let's see if I can explain it without sounding like a blathering nincompoop.
When I open a window to read the forums the new posting works as promised. However, when I keep Stripcreator open in any window and make a comic, or browse random comics, or edit my account -- anything with stripcreator -- the next time I come back to the forums the messages I just read are still marked as unread.
This happens even if I open a new window, or several. As long as stripcreator is in one window, it seems that it won't mark my messages as read.
If new messages come in besides the one I've already read, it'll mark those as unread. However, it will never mark the ones I HAVE read as read until I close all stripcreator windows and open the forums again from the new ones.
Does that make any sense at all?
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"Old" is the old new.