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I haven't upgraded my 2.0.3 version to 2.2 yet. I weighed the new features with what I currently had including hacks (including ethank's previous Mark Forum Read hack) and decided that there wasn't enough in the new version to warrant my upgrading.

With some time and experience using vB boards at version 2.2, I am convinced that the cookie implementation of Mark Forum read that they have included is not the least bit reliable. I have several times come back to a 2.2 vB board and found that what I had previously marked as read, is no longer displayed as read, but as new. I have also seen instances where forums I had not marked as read had suddenly become so.

Currently, I am very pleased with ethank's previous hack for 2.0.3, with a small adjustment that I made to it to send users back to the index after using a Mark forum Read link.

I have downloaded a copy of this hack, but have not installed it due to my satisfaction with how 2.0.3 is working for me.

I reviewed this hack, and liked the way that child forums could be marked as well, but the icon implementation of it seems like it may be a little complicated and confusing for my varying in age members who are most familiar with using ezboard style bulletin boards.

If the day does come that I decide to upgrade my forums to 2.2, I will in fact install this hack, because of my own issues with the unreliability of the cookie version of ?Mark Forum Read?, and the reliability I have found in ethank?s database version.

I just wanted to add my two cents and support for what ethank has provided vBulletin users.