# Can't unstick the sticky **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 31, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954 "2023-03-31T23:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/1 "2023-03-31T23:05:33Z")
The recent thread about the forum name change won’t allow me to unpin it. Is this an error? Or do we have to wait a certain amount of time before we can unpin it? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/2 "2023-03-31T23:07:43Z")
Nothing special about it, it should unpin ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/3 "2023-03-31T23:10:08Z")
It’s not for me. Perhaps other posters will chime in. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/4 "2023-03-31T23:12:46Z")
I just unpinned it successfully. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/5 "2023-03-31T23:13:44Z")
I was able to unpin it on my phone even. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/6 "2023-03-31T23:21:47Z")
I unpinned it pronto. (I don’t like leaving things pinned if I’ve already read it.) Where are you trying to do the “unpin” action? You have to open the thread and left-click the pushpin icon at the left edge of the thread title. On a computer, I guess you can unpin clicking the same icon in the thread list, but that’s not an option in the mobile version. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/7 "2023-03-31T23:24:27Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > You have to open the thread and left-click the pushpin icon at the left edge of the thread title. That might be skin dependent. I just pinned and unpinned it in ‘latest’. Windows 10, Opera. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/8 "2023-03-31T23:25:32Z")
Yeah, I added to my original post when I noticed you could unpin in the title in a thread list on a computer. But that doesn’t work on a phone (for me). FWIW, I would not be kindly inclined for different skins to have such radically different capabilities. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/9 "2023-03-31T23:27:15Z")
Having recently needing to switch skins so I could actually see the bold titles of unread threads… they do. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/10 "2023-03-31T23:41:54Z")
Thanks guys. I don’t know what’s going on. I haven’t even done anything since I last posted and now it’s showing as unpinned. Must be something weird going on with my browser. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/11 "2023-03-31T23:42:15Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > FWIW, I would not be kindly inclined for different skins to have such radically different capabilities. Vincent is kind of the bastard child of Discourse. It’s buggy and some things are very hard (if not impossible) to read on it due to its color schemes. Most of the other themes are fairly consistent in the way that they do things, though there might be some minor differences here and there. That said, I haven’t tried unpinning threads in different themes so I’m not sure how well that one works between themes. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/12 "2023-04-01T07:00:05Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Vincent is kind of the bastard child of Discourse. Eeeeey… What can I say, that’s just Cousin Vinny. (Also, I would wager the OP’s problem was some kind of browser cache issue if it suddenly kicked in on its own later.) ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/13 "2023-04-01T12:25:33Z")
BTW, thanks for this thread. I scroll past the sticky’s without looking at them, and likely would not have seen the announcement otherwise! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/14 "2023-04-02T16:28:44Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > I scroll past the sticky’s without looking at them That’s why I unpin them, so they will drop down the list and only come up at the top if they are new or if thee is something new in them. This one is still at the top because there are lots of responses, but it will sink down in time. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/15 "2023-04-02T16:37:05Z")
TIL you can un-stick the stickies. Didn’t even know that was an option. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-unstick-the-sticky/981954/16 "2023-04-02T23:00:04Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > That’s why I unpin them I hadn’t done that, because I thought it might be useful at some point to easily and quickly find one of them. But I’ve never actually needed to do that, and now I have a reason to get rid of them. Unpinning it is!