# What happened to the "view first unread" button?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-view-first-unread-button/472047>\
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**Created:** [November 10, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-view-first-unread-button/472047 "2008-11-10T16:27:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-view-first-unread-button/472047/1 "2008-11-10T16:27:48Z")

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That option has disappeared from the top left portion of a thread page.

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**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-view-first-unread-button/472047/2 "2008-11-10T17:02:18Z")

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I’m seeing it, right under the “Post Reply” button at the beginning of a thread. Any chance that it’s related to you being a “guest”? Although that seems an odd feature to tie to a user’s member status… Do you have the “thread tools”, “search this thread”, or “Display modes” links on the right-hand side? Maybe that whole toolbar has an option in the back-end configuration associated with membership type.

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-view-first-unread-button/472047/3 "2008-11-10T18:19:46Z")

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Yeah, I probably need to re-up, been procrastinating on that…

What actually seems to be happening is when I click on a thread it now automatically resets all posts to unread, which it wasn’t doing before today (and I’ve been lapsed into guest-mode for 2 months now).

Edit: Problem fixed now, odd…