Quote Originally Posted by Rye View Post
I feel like an idiot but I kind of don't get what has changed. It all seems the same to me. =O
Threads that have new posts have different icons than other threads. In the old version, those threads would be automatically marked as read due to inactivity. For example, if you logged in for the first time and see there's a bunch of new posts but then you wandered off for thirty minutes and refreshed the page, it would look like there were no new posts (except for any that were made in that 30 minute span).

In this new version, threads are never marked as read unless 1) you actually read them, or 2) you click "mark forum(s) as read." You could log in for the first time one day, leave for hours/days/whatever, come back and all of the threads would still show up as having new posts.