Alerts being marked read immediately

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In summary, there is a recent change where all items in the Alerts menu are marked as "Read a moment ago" instead of remaining unread until the user views them. This may be due to a setting in the Preferences page called "Alerts pop-up skips mark read" which should be ticked for the desired functionality. This setting may have been accidentally changed for some users, but can be manually adjusted.
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I'm seeing a very recent change that when I open my Alerts menu to see what's new, everything gets marked "Read a moment ago", instead of individual items remaining unread until I have looked at them. Is this a bug?
 
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Have you been on your Preferences page recently? There's a setting there that you might have accidentally changed. Go to your preferences (I think this link should work) and find "Alerts pop-up skips mark read" - you want it to be ticked. Click Save and wait for somebody to post so you can test ..
 
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I was facing this too. Had to manually change back that setting.
 
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Ibix said:
There's a setting there that you might have accidentally changed.
More likely it was accidentally changed for us!

Just changed it back myself.
 
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I updated that feature a couple weeks ago and it must have reset a default.
 
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Jonathan Scott said:
Is this a bug?
Ibix said:
"Alerts pop-up skips mark read" - you want it to be ticked.
PeroK said:
More likely it was accidentally changed for us!
Thanks for the thread start and the fix! I was experiencing the same issue.
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
I updated that feature a couple weeks ago and it must have reset a default.
Thanks - that explains it and after setting the option it's now working as before.
 

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