While this is a YART - Mav started one off on this very topic late last year from memory - the fact is that the software, believe it or not, has bugs. A number of them are merely annoying, others are downright pains in the ass (or arse, if you're British).

The lack of consistency with the New tag is a niggle which is actually, I think, the result of faulty design or a deliberate design decision. Perhaps this is because otherwise the board database would have to record every single thread that you've opened against your name. If you start adding them up over time it comes to a lot. Each time you entered a thread, the system would have to check if you've read it before and flag it accordingly. It's much easier to simply record the last time that you entered the category and then compare the date of the posts in each thread with the last time you entered it, flagging all posts posted since then as New.

It would be no problem to have the local time displayed for each user, and if fact I understand this feature is available, just not enabled.

Anu may simply not see it as a priority to tune the board software! We'd do it for him, wouldn't we, Max?


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