I believe the information in the original post is obsolete in that it refers to how the old board format worked. The blue oval "Recent Topics" on this board is not the same as the old format's "Unread Topics". I'd love to be proven wrong on this, as I relied on "Unread Topics" a *lot* with the old format. I believe the moderators have said that providing an "Unread Topics" button is on their list of things to do eventually.