[fordem]

The old forum showed threads with unread posts based on the time of my visit, so if I looked at say 6 out of 12 threads, on my next visit, none of the 12 would show as new unless someone had posted to them in between my visits - this version marks the threads based on whether or not I look at them, so those 6 threads I didn't look at will show as new or updated regardless of how many times I visit .

Is there a personal setting that controls this somewhere or is it a forum default? My preference is the old way, but it's not really a big deal.

[Poita]

View new posts does what you want from what i can see.

[steve]

This is a system that actually works the way it should. If you haven't read the post why would it say that you have?

on other forum scripts people complain because once they leave and return to a site all the posts are marked as read.

use the "mark forums read" link at the top, of the index page and also at the top of every page.

[fordem]

Yeah - that's what I'm doing now - and why I said it wasn't a big deal - I just preferred it the other way.