What's New tab settings
 

Is there a place to change settings for the 'what's new?' tab? Say increase or decrease the time frame of what is shown?

Not really. It's for What's New Since you Were Last Here or you last hit Mark Forums Read. It kinda depends on what type of Forum Read Markup you are using (vboptions > general settings).

We are using cookie based mark up set at the default 10 days.

Then you can change that time there.

I would love to be able to change the whats new tab so that it shows active topics instead of just what I havn't read or whatever, its really frustrating cause you gotta go through your forums again find which thread you want.

Their has to be a way to modify it so it shows the last 50 active topics or even 20 or 30?!

I know in VB3 this was possible. I'm looking for the same mod but haven't had any luck yet.