I agree with Rabit, the icons are still not showing when there are new posts within existing topics within a section. One of the icons showed there was something new to me this morning, but that was because there was a completely new topic created in the section.
Same issue as Rabit and Spiff: only being notified of new threads, not new posts.
Also: a way to choose the default format for post entry would be nice.
Okay, here's a perfect example of what happened earlier today. The was a new thread created in General Discussion, then a new post was added to an existing thread in Events. Check out how that played out...
Interesting, huh?
Also, here's what happens when when I click on the images I can't get to load.
I can't tell what's in that little diamond. :-\
FYI: In the editor, these images were small - I have no idea why they didn't stay small after I saved it. :-(
The alt-text on the News page reads "Blade Blade" instead of "Baron Blade".
It looks like the problem with the icons not showing you when something's new can be gotten around by using the "New and Updated Topics" tab. That seems to show everything's that new without having to dig through the rest of the forums to find it. Not bad.
The "Active Topics" tab shows topic names from the Playtester forum and others that I don't have access to. Probably shouldn't even be displayed.
Ok, so perhaps it was showing only topics. I've made a change which I think will now include replies to new topics in the count of things that are new. Keep me posted on how it looks to you guys.
At the very least, I see the counts of new posts are way higher than they were before and they are in forums I rarely go to, so that seems to have had an effect.
On the other hand, it looks as if the "Mark All Forums Read" doesn't quite work. So maybe I'll fix that one day (after I fix all the other stuff that needs attention). (FWIW,I have to go and read each. individal. topic. to make it show up as not new. Which is painful when there are hundreds of things that haven't been read by me.)
When I came to the forum today I was happy to see the starred folders but then I looked at the count and saw that it had unread all the topics I had previously used the "mark all read" (from the front page). I don't know why the Events and Official Rulings topics are untouched, there were no posts in it that I had not read yesterday... but there was no posts in the Off Topic forum I had not either, and that's starred.
EDIT: the General Discussion board number did decrease by 4, the number of actual topics that had new replies I had not read since yesterday.
Well I can confirm that "mark all forums read" did work a few days ago, I used it to 'mark all read' the whole board! and I agree it's not working now (just tested it, from the forum main page and the individual sub-boards)... and I've just loooked, I have no unread topics in those folders so can't make the 'new' number decrease.
Here's a random page in the general folder showing that I don't have anything new to read, despite what the front page is telling me, and clicking on a previously read topic does not make the number go down (thinking it might just not be displaying the 'new' bit in the sub-board I spent a little time clicking on random threads, no change).
On the plus side Huzzah for the "Who's online" coming back!
Yes, I think there's a bug in the "mark all read" in that you'll find some remaining unread items if you go to the last page or two of topics. I saw this last night. I hit the "mark all read" a few times and nothing changed, so there's a bug in there somewhere. I'll probably make a copy of the database and see if I can poke at it this weekend.
Without knowing for sure, my best guess is that previously it was showing unread (or completely new) topics, but now that it's counting replies to topics, you get a better result.
On the plus side Huzzah for the "Who's online" coming back!
I thought I'd not announce that and give you the fun of discovering it yourself. :)
(Also, signatures are on the way, but they aren't as pretty as I'd like them to be when the appear.)
And look at that. Signatures are appearing. And they were migrated from the old site, with caveats, I'm sure. Edit your profile to change them.
Next up! Attachments...(And recovering those that were lost in the move)
You're doing a great job, keep it up! :)
Question: When I check the forum on my iPad then check it again on my Mac, things which I'd swear I've viewed look like they're not being marked as having been viewed. Is it the case that my "last viewed" information is being stored in cookies, which would be unique to each device? That would account for the unexpected behavior.
I think that I'll need to test this to see if I can reproduce it, but I can with a high degree of certainty that the cookies do not store the last viewed information. It's session-based.
I use my work PC throughout the week to check the forums here, but over the weekend, I use my home PC (or iPad). When I got into work this morning, I had to re-login to my PC. I guess a weeked of non-use on a particular device is too long to remain logged in? Can we please get the "keep me logged in" checkbox back so I don't have to dig out 1Password every Monday?
Would it be possible to move the "save" button to be closer to the text field of a new post than it is now? Currently, you have the text box you're typing a reply or new post into, then the "disable rich text" link, then a bunch of text you don't care about, then finally the button you actually want, the "save" button. It would be nicer if that button were directly below the text box, with the rest of the text and options below that.
Everytime I check the forums, it shows a huge number of unread items. When I actually go into the forum, itself, it is usually unchanged, with no new posts. The only way I can know if something new has been posted is if I remember the last time I logged onto the site and compare that to the newest post on each forum… 
I had that problem too (it is now fixed), I think it is linked to the fact that the last post in almost every thread is marked as the day the forums swapped over, try looking on the last and second to last pages of the sections to see if there are unread threads, I'll bet that they are the ones both marked unread and with dates other than the great forum swap over!
Tried that - seems like they just won't go away. I've been relying on the "Mark all topics read" tool, and it doesn't appear to be working. Otherwise, I have to go into every thread, and I have not been able to make time to do that.
Did a quick search and found some emoticon options. My suggestion is the IPB Style library, although I wouldn’t recommend including F*@$ You, cool shades smoking (as Smoking is better), Horse poops, Evil Witch, Surprised Witch, Crying, Evil Green, Evil (both of them), and Evil Grin.
If those don’t work, how about TPVGames library, although I wouldn’t recommend including Futuristic.
For some additional images, Boardoo has some entertaining options available to add to the libraries above, such as a psychic, jester, ninja, and “the Wave”.
I've been ignoring the counts completely and it's been working great. I just use the "new and updated topics" tab that appears when you're at the baseline Forums level (not sure why those tabs aren't always visible). In fact, that tab is what I've bookmarked as being the forums for me, since seeing the new and updated stuff is usually all I want to see.