Previous versions of Discuss used to display a grey ‘Dismiss’ button at bottom right so that we could skip any posts and/or threads in which we were not interested.
This no longer displays; the only way to get a ‘clean slate’ appears to be to click on each thread which has a new post and return to the main menu so that Discuss treats it as read and the count decrements by 1.
Now, though, when I see that there are, say, 8 new threads, and five of them are not ones I am interested in and/or are not relevant, I have to click on the title for each one, get to the thread, get back to Latest twice and then it will disappear from new.
20 clicks to do what the Dismiss button used to do
This must be something to do with the Discourse software we’re using — we haven’t changed any settings, and I can’t find anything about where/when/why it is/isn’t displayed
No matter where I start from (All Categories vs RapidWeaver) I see what you see in the second/lower portion of your uploaded image (it wouldn’t let me upload my own… stuck at ‘100%’! even though only 34K) when there are new threads
I have emailed Discourse referencing this URL and asking them to explain how the Dismiss button is controlled.
On the advice of the good people at Discourse, who suggest it’s a bug introduced regressively at the last update, I have started this thread for comment and - hopefully - a fix soon.
It’s now necessary to click three times into each thread to get it marked as not New!