Hi MB, I don't know if you saw my response on the old thread which you moved to Testing. I discovered that you already had it set up and tried it before you posted this announcement. It didn't seem to work.
All I can say is that it worked perfectly for both Midnite and myself last night as soon as I'd installed it. :-/
I tried again when I first arrived a little while ago. It takes "forever" for it to find the new posts. I think the reason why is that all of those old posts, that haven't been viewed for a while and regain their "new" tags, are apparently included.
It's odd that it should take so long for you because it finds the newest posts in well under a minute for me - even when more than 200 posts came up the first time I tried it. :-/ However, if your modem's connection speed is under 50K and/or your computer's CPU speed is significantly slow (say, under 400MHz), those would certainly be factors that would contribute to the slowness of almost any of the forum's features.
As far as topics regaining their "new" tags goes, that problem was corrected about three weeks ago when I installed a fix that YaBB had just released.
If for some reason you're still seeing a "new" tag on older topics, then what you should do once you've caught up on all the latest posts is go back to the BoardIndex, scroll down past all the categories, and then click on "Mark ALL Posts As Read".
So, that not only slows down the process, but one has to wade through all of those small listings to find the ones that really ARE current.
I'm not quite sure what you mean here by having to wade through others before you find the current posts. If you're using the default setting: "Messages I haven't seen before", this feature not only lists topics from the most currently updated to the oldest one containing a post or posts you haven't read, but it begins listing posts in each topic starting with the first one made since the last time you've read that topic. Posts that had already been opened in a topic are completely omitted from the listings.
For now I think I'll do better sticking with the old way.
Well, certainly feel free to view topics and posts in whatever way you feel most comfortable. After all, that's why the forum offers a variety of features.