Effective immediately, you will notice that new threads and posts are going to be marked read in a different manner.

Before, all new posts were automatically marked as being read when you logged back out, or after you were inactive for 15 minutes, when your session would automatically end.

Now, an unread post will remain highlighted as an unread post, until you either read it, or select one of the links to mark posts as read. Unread posts will be left as unread for a period of seven days.

This will help those users that are only able to log into the forum for short periods of time.