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For those of you that use the "New Posts" button, things will change how you see the board. We have made a change to how that button operates.
Before, if you logged in and hit the new posts button you would be shown all of the threads you hadn't read since last logging in. But, if you had to logout before you were able to read all of the threads with new posts in it and logged in later, all of the threads you hadn't gotten to read got marked as read automatically and wouldn't show up when you hit the new posts button. Meaning you would have to dig through the forums to find the posts you hadn't seen. It was essentially the same as if you opened your email and weren't able to read all of your unread emails before you got pulled away and then when you come back to your email, all of your unread emails showed as read.
Now, even if you login and can't read the whole board before you have to logout, the site will keep the threads you haven't read as unread, so you can more easily find the updated threads you haven't seen. We hope this will help navigate users back to content they haven't seen and create more responses in threads that they may or may not have even seen before. For a lot of us that are on here all the time (me, cause I'm a whore) it won't really change much, but for those that are only able to login a couple of times a day, it could potentially help them tremendously not miss out on responses they wouldn't have normally seen.
Before, if you logged in and hit the new posts button you would be shown all of the threads you hadn't read since last logging in. But, if you had to logout before you were able to read all of the threads with new posts in it and logged in later, all of the threads you hadn't gotten to read got marked as read automatically and wouldn't show up when you hit the new posts button. Meaning you would have to dig through the forums to find the posts you hadn't seen. It was essentially the same as if you opened your email and weren't able to read all of your unread emails before you got pulled away and then when you come back to your email, all of your unread emails showed as read.
Now, even if you login and can't read the whole board before you have to logout, the site will keep the threads you haven't read as unread, so you can more easily find the updated threads you haven't seen. We hope this will help navigate users back to content they haven't seen and create more responses in threads that they may or may not have even seen before. For a lot of us that are on here all the time (me, cause I'm a whore) it won't really change much, but for those that are only able to login a couple of times a day, it could potentially help them tremendously not miss out on responses they wouldn't have normally seen.