Originally Posted by Gizmo
You're saying that when a user enters a forum the forum is marked as read? if so, that's stock behavior.


I might have mistyped, but what I mean is that the all the unread topics are suddenly marked as read. I.e. if you enter a forum and see 10 topics with new posts, if you click into 1 topic to read it, and then go back to the forum, instead of 9 unread topics...you now have no topics marked as unread.

This was not the case prior to moving to the new server. I should add that this server is a grid server, meaning instead of 1 physical machine, the msg board code lives in duplicate on 3 machines, all pointing to a backend SAN for the mysql database.

My concern is this may be the reason for the problem, but it seems the unread topics should be kept on the client or in the db itself, and not cached on the server in memory (hopefully).

thanks