by Wayne Harrison » Dec 31, 2007 9:58 pm
If you click "View New Posts" it will tell you how many there are on the right side of the list.
The way posts were handled before, it counted new posts since your last log-in.. If you logged in and logged out, it would assume you read them and not count them anymore. That was a pain if you logged in then had a leave before reading the posts. If you logged back in, they wouldn't show up as new because it only counted new posts since your log in.
Under the new system, if you log in and read only 3 of 9 posts, it will keep track and show the remaining six as new posts even if you log out and log back in. In other words, it tracks the posts you read and if you don't read a new post... it keeps it as new until you do, or mark your posts as read.