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@Doug I know Peter is still tweaking stuff, but for the past couple days there should be an exclamation point inside a gay dot next to forum posts. If the exclamation is green, there are new posts- click on the (!) to jump to unread. If the exclamation is light gray on gray, nothing new since last visit. Are you seeing that?
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@Brian, as I have said before, I am partly colour blind and I cannot really see the difference between the green and the grey exclaimation points. To you the difference may be obvious but not to me. A number of people have suggested using something with more contrast; I guess I don’t understand the resistance to doing that. Does the current system only allow green and gray exclaimation points?
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@Doug. My apologies- I didn’t catch your post about color blindness. I actually brought that up to Peter a couple days ago. He said he is going to change the icon shapes to make the difference clearer. Right now it is green on white for un-read, and gray on white for read. That is likely indistinguishable for you, unfortunately. I think they are just default icons, but he said they are supposed to be changeable, which he would dig into later. I will give him a nudge. I know it’s a big deal!
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@bluescat, no worries. @peter has already reached out and I have offered to find some icons that might work. I had taken Peter’s comment that the site was feature complete to mean that green and gray exclaimation points were what was going to be used to identify read/unread messages. That was not his intent at all.


Amusing typo and the editing function is presently not available (please don’t delete it!!!!) , but I consider the forum functionality complete. I will swap out the read / unread function if a bunch of folks want it because I’ve already tested it and it didn’t cause any conflicts with other scripts (the biggest concern when adding a new script / plugin after security).