I'm not sure if it was so much a system problem or a user problem. Some of the emails I get on problems aren't too descriptive. Usually it was something like "some of my users are having a hard time telling what color the icons are". I'm not sure if that is because some are color blind, old, bad monitors, etc.[]/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/]
Icons are normally retrieved from cache once they have been viewed at once. The argument against 2 sets of icons is it wouldn't read from the cached icon if it was a new icon. Obviously, this is minimal because the icon size is small anyways.
Right now you just look to the same place. If there is any part of a thread that you haven't seen, be it a brand new thread or a thread that has some unread replies, it will always be in the same place. BillD suggested a different icon for threads that have unread replies and this is something I'm going to see if I can do. Although I'm not sure what type of icon would be used for the default on that.
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Scream
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