Alerts being marked read immediately

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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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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.
 
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.