"The threads below have not been updated ..."

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#1

This is another forum oddity.

I logged in a few minutes ago, then loaded the “New Posts” page. The second page of that contains:

The threads below have not been updated since your last visit but still contain unread posts.

That message seems wrong. The last time that I visited the forum, I made sure that I marked all threads as read before I closed that tab.

Here’s what I think must have happened:

I did pull up the main forum page at a little before midnight last night, which would have been after some of those unread posts.

The main page pointed me to the need to login to the forum. I chose not to bother - a login could wait till the morning.

It seems that the forum software has a split personality:
It does not know who I am, and therefore I must login;
It knows who I am, and records this as a visit.

This seems wrong to me. If it knows who I am well enough to record this as a visit, then it should not be asking for me to login. If it is going to ask me to login, it should be ignoring any cookies that pretend to know who I am.

I realize it’s a minor point. But it still seems wrong.

#2

Logged in user is different from “guest” user as http sessions are different

#3

When my login has presumably expired, the browser still has several cookies that identify me to opensuse.org. That’s different from the pure “guest” case with no identifying cookies.