Is there any point in this interface?

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Continuing that theme, it insists on showing only one thread when you follow a link from RC, rather than letting you browse the whole conversation after checking the new post, for no purpose I can make out.

Time educated Hoover!18:25, 21 November 2010

Yes, that part is buggy, sometimes it shows every other thread except the one I clicked on RC.

-- Nx / talk18:32, 21 November 2010

The "new messages" indicator is also incredibly stupid — even once clicked on, it does not automatically mark the posts as read, but requires that I click a button to say that I have read it. I should hope that I don't need to explain why that's utterly stupid.

Time educated Hoover!18:41, 21 November 2010

Does your email provider/application automatically mark all emails as read as soon as you open your inbox? That would be stupid. What's broken in lqt is that it doesn't mark messages as read when you view them on the page they are on.

-- Nx / talk18:45, 21 November 2010

No, my email does not do that. That is because when I open my inbox I can't read the messages without clicking on them. I can read the new messages when I click the "new messages" link, so not marking them as read is stupid.

Time educated Hoover!20:53, 21 November 2010

Imagine this scenario: You open Special:Newmessages, start reading them, and then halfway through you have to go somewhere so you shut down your computer. You come back later but the messages you didn't get to yet have also been marked as read, so good luck finding them again.

-- Nx / talk20:56, 29 November 2010

That scenario is contrived and you know it.

Time educated Hoover!12:29, 30 November 2010

Not if you have a lot of messages. You might not be able to read them all at once, and if you just reload Special:Newmessages, you'll lose the ones that were marked as read automatically without you having read them.

-- Nx / talk12:36, 30 November 2010