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Old topics with new comments don't show "(X new)"
I have the "mark new comments" option enabled. Most of the time, it works, displaying "(X new)" under any topics which have had new comments posted since I last looked at it.
However, if the topic is old enough, this "(X new)" notification does not display. The topic is sorted to the top of my feed, because I'm using activity from all-time as my default sort. But it doesn't show "(X new)". I know it has new comments, or it wouldn't jump to the top of my feed, but I'm not seeing that notification.
I don't know how old is "old enough" but it's definitely longer than a month. The topics this is happening to are 3 or 6 months old, but it doesn't seem to happen for topics which are only a few weeks old.
Oh. That's unexpected. I must have read that page sometime, but I had forgotten that quirk. Thanks for that.
I would still suggest that this is a problem, in that there's an inconsistency in how Tildes displays new comments for recent topics and older topics.
Given that we're opting in to this feature and thereby giving permission for Tildes to store our viewing history, maybe we could choose how long Tildes can store that history to make this feature work better: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, forever.