If your visited links are not changing color then you need to check your history settings in your browser. It has to be set to "remember history". If it is set not to remember history or 'clear history on closing' then you will lose your visited highlights.

> If your visited links are not changing color then you need to check your history settings in your browser. It has to be set to "remember history". If it is set not to remember history or 'clear history on closing' then you will lose your visited highlights.

Using Firefox I noticed this strange behaviour a while ago, and yes, Firefox is set to "Remember History"; after some checks today I notice Chrome does exactly the same.

Well,
All I can say is that the above screen shot is from this morning and all is normal. It was the same yesterday as well as the day before too. You must have an incorrect setting some where.

> You must have an incorrect setting some where.

.... not on 3 PCs , 2 browsers each! No-one fiddling with settings! Besides, many of us are reporting the same phenomenon.... can't all be fiddlers :-) The trouble is that, same as your screenshot, the topic remains looking "read" even when others have added replies.....

NO, definitely not on the client side. It is a server code send issue - as it went down several weeks ago. Has not been serving to clients properly and consistently since then.

Check your Chrome and FF settings. I found Chrome AUTOMATICALLY logged me in to my Google account for the BROWSER when I used Youtube/Google Drive once from it. If you have FF set to sync settings between browsers on different machines then a change in one will effect the others.

"The trouble is that, same as your screenshot, the topic remains looking "read" even when others have added replies...."

Maybe I'm missing something here but that's the way it has always been. It does not refresh when some one adds a comment. The changing of colors of visited threads is in your browser, not on the site. I can reset the visited thread colors just by clearing my browser history. If I clear one hour of browsing history then all the changed colors in the last hour go back to blue The rest stay the same.

Here's a screen shot of history and history cleared (in that order).

[IMG=http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt245/Bob_sanders/History_zpsjtctkxkx.jpg]

[IMG=http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt245/Bob_sanders/History%20cleared_zpsmsvqmbqw.jpg]

If it changed colors back to blue every time some one answered then you wouldn't be able to keep track of which threads you were involved in (which is the OP's original complaint)

> If it changed colors back to blue every time some one answered ....

If you re-read the OP, that is exactly the complaint:
- It used to be that when we read a thread, the index showed Magenta.... indicating user had read the thread.
- It used to be that when that when a comment was added, the thread index changed back to Blue, indicating a comment had been added since last time user read it.
That was the behaviour for the years ever since I joined this Forum; suddenly a few weeks ago it changed.... now the threads just stay Magenta regardless.

Why am I suddenly feeling I am here? http://www.montypython.net/scripts/argument.php

As far as i can see, the change is entirely due to the fact that the forum software no longer contains the "reply count" in the URL.

Which is what I said 3 days ago, Kelly. The link no longer "changes".