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Hello,

I spent an hour or two debugging a weird issue for my client yesterday, and I have finally found the culprit – messages_mark_thread_read

Client was using a theme (woffice) that offers a live chat functionality (by basically displaying buddypress threads in a chat format). The problem was that, when someone would view someone else’s profile, and have a chat open at the same time, instead of marking that thread as read for him, it would instead mark it as read for that person.

Why?

Because messages_mark_thread_read first checkes whether a user is displayed, and then clears the unread_count` for that user, only falling back to a logged in user if no user is being displayed currently.

I was wondering why is that so?

Thanks,
Ante