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The Codex of Laws is pretty much our first nested subform, and I noticed some strange behavior. New posts inside the subforums of the Codex of Laws aren't showing up as the Codex of Laws being unread, but rather the Storting being unread. This is very confusing for navigation because you then click on Storting only to see no unread posts, and then have to realize that the actual unread posts are two more subforum levels down.

I believe the unread feature carries across - nested subforums are technically a part of the parent forum, so if there are unread in the nested there are (technically) unreads in the parent.

EDIT: I see what you mean, I think - The Storting shows as unread, the Codex of Laws shows as no new unreads, and then the nested subforums within that subforum show as unread from new posts. Weird, it's not fully persistent.

I was afraid of that. There's a lot of weird stuff with nested subforums, and that's why I've never used them before. In nested subforums, new posts aren't listed in the last post section of the main forum, and posts in nested subforums do not count toward the main forum's post count. The SMF team has said that it'd take too much processing power to pull data for nested subforums everytime someone accessed the main forum page.

However, I couldn't find any issue with unread topics in nested subforums, and it would probably take a lot of time and effort to get to the root of a minor problem (assuming it is a bug and not a design limitation like the ones above), so I've made the Codex a main forum, as Gerrick had already suggested in the discussion about the Codex.

This is a problem again now that the Codex is no longer a main forum.