I actually really liked the old software. It was better than any other forum software I've ever used at tracking what I'd read and what I hadn't.

Looks like the new software knows when I last visited, but not what I did when I last visited.

Anyway, the most useful way to read this new software, in my opinion, is with the "today's posts" link under the "quick links" menu. It shows you the most recent posts anywhere on the forum, and also shows you which ones are new since you last visited. You can get the stuff that you didn't read last time, as well as the stuff that's new since you were last here.

However, this is not a link you can bookmark or even just "refresh" in your browser. Each time you click it, it generates a new search with a new URL. Any fix for that? I wish there were a link at the top of every page that just ran this search, and that the URL that the browser sees for that link was fixed (so that refreshing the browser actually got new data.)