by Oliver » Wednesday Jan 11, 2006 8:45 am
NTRabbit is right. phpbb doesn't offer this function. I suspect it is because it would significantly increase the size and complexity of the database.
I assume that currently it simply looks at the last time you logged on and flags all messages posted since then as unread.
If you could log on and off and still have it track what you've read and what you haven't, it would have to record which threads each user had viewed. At the time of writing there were 591 users and 1932 threads. That's an extra 1,141,812 pieces of information that would need to be stored in the database! You can see the problem ...
I know it would be handy (I have the same problem as you, Shaun), but it ain't possible I don't think.
Cheers,
Oliver