Accepted· Confirmed bug or accepted suggestion, not yet scheduled
Automatically mark viewed server channels as read
- Type
- Feature
- Priority
- Medium
- Area
- 🏰 Servers & Roles
- Votes
- 👍 1
- Reported by
- Drigo 🐉
What would you like?
Update a server channel’s read state automatically when the user opens it and views new messages by scrolling, instead of requiring a manual “Mark as Read” action.
Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Opening a server channel automatically updates its read state without requiring a manual “Mark as Read” action.
- [ ] Scrolling through new messages in an opened server channel automatically clears the applicable unread state.
- [ ] After a channel’s new messages have been viewed, the channel no longer remains marked as unread.
Discord history
<details><summary>Original report by Drigo 🐉 · 2026-10-02</summary>
> You currently need to manually mark a server channel as "read" but this should be automatic when opening and scrolling channels and new messages on them.
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<details><summary>3 replies on Discord before the move</summary>
**Dawson** · 2026-10-02
> seems to be fixed when compiling from source
**Drigo 🐉** · 2026-10-02
> Apparently is a bug, it marks as read as long as it only has a few unread messages, if the unread messages is a really long conversation it won't mark them
**exyron** · 2026-10-02
> yea this is a feature but its kinda bugged and inconsistent sometimes
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Activity
- Imported from the previous tracker