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Hey, Mina, I notice you don't have a badge yet...

As I didn't have any problem with any of my accounts, 'survived' isn't really appropriate for me. :D

That's not what you said elsewhere.

I'd rather that you and I kept at opposite ends of the site SEF.

I'm unsubscribing. If anyone else wants me, come and find me.

I don't blame you

Naked

I managed to get on with SSO - but why am I now showing negative un- read posts on some of my conversations?

That has been happening to a lot of people ever since Jim introduced the new feature. It seems to be related to whether or not you have read all the pages of a conversation (possibly in the right order). It doesn't even have to be a long thread to get negative numbers appearing. Reading these threads sometimes, but not always (hence the caveat about order), then makes the number of new posts indication work properly.

But I did read all the backlog from all the threads I'm currently using!

Why me???

Sorry!

"I did read all the backlog" - well so far the problem hasn't been identified precisely. So see if you can figure out anything from the affected threads and how you read them.

"Why me???" - why not you since it seems to affect just about everybody. I don't recall anyone posting to say they don't have a single thread with a negative number of new posts. You'll just have to fall back on previous methods of telling whether anything has been posted (eg comparison with the last time you posted and other threads in your conversation list).

OK!
That was supposed to be an ironic "Why me?", BTW.

As it should be all relatively fresh in your mind, having just noticed the problem, is there anything which links your threads with the -ve numbers and distinguishes them from those which don't have -ve numbers? Note that probably all pre-existing threads before the feature was introduced will probably have had -ve numbers but that those may go away when you read them or post to them (ie initialising a variable in software terms). The really interesting ones are those which *have* been read or posted to by a given user since the feature was added and yet still persist in showing a negative number of new posts.

Nothing special about any of them. I've posted to and received replies from all the threads I'm involved with - and there's just two with -ve numbers of posts. The only new thread is this one which seems to be working OK.
Wierd, huh!