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this??? []/testimages/icons/laugh.gif[/] Sorry for all the links, but it's the same request I've been suggesting since January of 2000. You mentioned a couple times about how to actually to it and present it. The end result needs to be a way for users to easily get a listing of all messages since their last login, without going into each forum/board. It should be organized, not like a search result by date, but rather by a thread-by-thread listing.
With over 200 posts per day now, my users have been complaining once again that since they have to go into each different forum to check all new messages, it just takes too long to follow everything.
I know that this feature isn't found on many forums, but it would really give W3T an advantage for forums with over 20 or 30 posts per day.
In addition to this, an archiving feature would be welcomed, but is not urgent since the forum is performing very well with about 60,000 posts in the db.