OP Alerts staying unread

[Twilight666]

OK, I am not sure if this has been mentioned before
I searched through this subforum and didn't find anything similar but this might be a part of the update mentioned here.

Basically I have several watched threads that give me an alert and an email when the OP Posts.
If I check through my alerts list I get the list of them and they get marked as read.
But that is the only way that they can be marked as read!
I would prefer it, if an alert would also be automatically marked as read when I read the thread and reach that point.

As an example, I get an email mentioning that story X has updated.
I come to the Unwatched Threads list and go at that story from my last unread post until I reach the story post and read it.
Then I either leave because I don't have time or go through the rest of my unread watched threads.

But the original OP alert stays as unread and looks like either I missed an OP post or got a like etc.

Is there something that can be done?

 

[tehelgee]

OK, I am not sure if this has been mentioned before
I searched through this subforum and didn't find anything similar but this might be a part of the update mentioned here.

Basically I have several watched threads that give me an alert and an email when the OP Posts.
If I check through my alerts list I get the list of them and they get marked as read.
But that is the only way that they can be marked as read!
I would prefer it, if an alert would also be automatically marked as read when I read the thread and reach that point.

As an example, I get an email mentioning that story X has updated.
I come to the Unwatched Threads list and go at that story from my last unread post until I reach the story post and read it.
Then I either leave because I don't have time or go through the rest of my unread watched threads.

But the original OP alert stays as unread and looks like either I missed an OP post or got a like etc.

Is there something that can be done?

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Alerts have to at least be looked at before they'll clear. You don't have to click each of them, but you do need to at least bring up the alerts popup. There's not a way to change that, that I know of.

 

[january1may]

For what it's worth, on SV, alerts do clear when the relevant post had been read.

That said, to be honest, I'm not sure which system makes more sense, anyway.