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I don't know whether I'm the only one suffering from this, but I thought I'd post and find out. Every now and then, I find that forums where I still have unread threads are suddenly marked as Read, and this appears to be irreversible, more's the pity. Now, as far as I know, there are only two ways in which a user can mark a whole forum as read: i) towards the top of the forum itself, on the right, clicking on "Mark this forum as read", and ii) on the front page listing all the forums, by clicking on the "speech bubble(?)" icon to the left of the forum name. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be doing i) without noticing what I'm clicking on, and although it's possible, I suppose, that I might confuse the speech bubble with the dot to the left of individual thread titles, I don't think I'm doing that, either. Is anyone else finding this? It used to happen only with the Links forum, which was really irritating, because I frequently don't get around to reading weekend links until some time later. Then I'd find I could no longer see which links I hadn't read, so was unable to catch up. It now seems to be spreading beyond Links to other forums as well, though. I know that on one occasion I accessed the week's Links thread on my Chromebook, then when I exited I found the whole forum had been marked Read, but I don't necessarily think it's a problem limited to Chrome: I think it's happened with IE8 as well. It may be partly down to user error, of course, but I don't think it always is.