[Pen N Popper]

I'll chime in with my biggest (pet) peeve: In the old forums, I would look for unread posts by selecting the "view posts in last 24 hours." This would give me a long list of links to the last post made in each of the threads that met this criteria. In firefox, if I'd already visited that reply the link color would be slightly different. In the new forums, the links returned are to the first post in the thread, not the latest reply. This makes it difficult for me to determine if I've read the latest reply or not. My suggestion would be to reverse the link order displayed in the list: Link to last reply in the left column and have the small arrow next to the right (which would be next to the original poster's name) go to the first post. Does that make sense?

You may be saying, "Well, just use the "New Posts" link at the top." I find that this does not reliably show all the posts. I assume it is based off of some timestamp cookie, but mine gets updated at inopportune times which causes my next visit to the "New Posts" to leave a lot out. Perhaps there could be an option to disable the automatic updating of this cookie and tie it to the "Mark Forums Read" option?

I do like the new forums, especially the gallery. Excellent work there.