3.0 RC1 ???? - a bit old :) Personally I think option 2 is fine, for the reasons above. :)

Yep, it was old but I had enough hacks installed and it was teaked enough, that until now there really wan't a lot of need to upgrade. I just kep up with the sercurity fixes and left it at that. ;)

Is the performance issue really that much between option 2 and 3 to take it back down to 2? You know way more about it than I do, I'm sure. ;)

works great
Thanks!

<<< installed 3.5 RC1:
option 3: Automatic marking
:D

Any way to have this not show up to guests viewing the board?

Put the template code inside a conditional (checking for userid > 0).

I know how to do it, Paul. I just thought maybe you might want to include it in your mod. ;)

Since I needed to update a small change in the instructions I have added this as well. Guests will no longer see who has read a thread.

Hey Paul I was wondering if you would consider adding the "enhanced" functionality in Oceans 3.0.7 version to your 3.5 mod. I've PM'd and posted in that thread asking if it would be updated and have gotten no response. I really loved being able to reset the second counter so I could tell who had read a thread since the last time I reset the hidden counter.

You can see what I mean by reset counter here.

Thanks for your consideration.

Sorry, but that's not likely to happen in this hack at the moment, if ever - I have no real use for it - and it would add extra complication to what is basically a simple display.

installed thnx works fine