Minor issue; "New or unread"read posts show as Blue. Read posts show as a grayish purple.

[Fla Dem]

Last edited Thu Feb 8, 2024, 10:56 AM - Edit history (1)

For a while now even though I've read new posts (Blue) and even responded, they will change to a Gray/Purple color, but if I leave DU or even the page that post was on and go back, it shows up as BLUE again; an unread post.

It gets to be very time consuming and frustrating to check out all the Blue posts only to find out I've already read them.

Is it something I am doing wrong? Do I need to change a setting?

[EarlG]

1. The color of the links is determined by your browser

Our code tells a link to appear as a default color if it has not been clicked (blue), and a "visited" color if it has been clicked (purple). But it's your browser that knows whether you clicked the link before, or not. When you click a link, the page you go to will be recorded in your browser's history. Then, when you return to the page which contained the original link, your browser will know that you already went to the page, so it will display the link in the "visited" color.

If the colors are "resetting" for you on every page load, that suggests to me that your browser is not recording your browsing history. When your history is not recorded (or if your history is cleared), your browser can no longer remember whether it visited certain pages or not. So when you go back to those pages, it will treat all the links as "new" and they will appear in the default (blue) color instead of purple.

I suspect that you may be in Private Browsing mode (Safari) or Incognito mode (Chrome) -- in these modes, browser history is not recorded so links will always be blue. Can you tell if you are in one of these modes?

[Fla Dem]

2. EarlG, thanks for the response.

From what I can tell my pc is in "Private Mode". Unfortunately, after spending an hour trying to solve the issue, I just can't figure it out. I'm not giving up, but not too tech savvy. I'll try again later. Again thank you.

[EarlG]

3. To be clear

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with being in Private Browsing mode, but it explains the behavior with the links — they’re always going to be blue while you’re in that mode.