Why can't we have a 'already read' indicator back?

Old LUSH had an indicator that let us know, when we looked at a selection of stories/titles, which one's we had already read. I don't see/can't find that now. It's cumbersome to see an interesting title, open the story, then - have to bring up a 'Find' window and see if I can find my name on the page to see if I've already read it, or; read the story, then find the Score is already filled in - and see that my 'new/now' score is 'rescored', and then find I've left a comment weeks, months or a year or more ago.

How do you not recall what you read?

That's the problem. Many times titles are similar. Or I read something - a while ago - and find the title/topic or teaser interesting - and decide to read it. I get a couple of paragraphs, or halfway, and recognize some passage or theme in the story and realize that I already read it; or to the end of it and get ready to comment and find out I commented on it months ago.

I read many stories on here, and can't/don't keep a list of what title, by what author I have read.

Again, in the 'old LUSH' there was an obvious indicator in the post and in the header of the story that showed that you had already read it. It was nice!

It was a nice feature that was useful, especially if you spot a story you read ages ago and the title doesn't ring a bell.

The trouble is that it takes up a fair amount of of space to store a link about every story you've read.

Also, what do you mean by 'read'? If you mean 'page you visited' - which is the browser's definition of "already read" - then how does the system know you've not just clicked on the page by mistake? Or clicked to read it, didn't have time to finish it and intend to come back later? You could see a 'read' indicator and think you've already finished it.

Lush could use the act of Liking or Favouriting or commenting as an indicator. But if you don't interact with the story in that way - perhaps you didn't like it - then you would still like to know you've looked at it so you don't try and read it again and be disappointed a second time.

Or, since stories are auto added to your Reading Queue from friends and followees, the act of removing it from the reading queue could be the trigger. But if an author isn't on your friends list and you stumble across one you read, that wouldn't help leave a trail.

So, it really depends on how we define "I have read this".