Is this marking fine grained enough to know that 5 of 10 posts in a thread are unread - and is there the ability to show this information in the thread-list? Is there a counter in the forum index to show the total number of all unread posts in this forum. That's what this hack is all about (see screenshots)
Just persisting a read-timestamp for each Thread via db (and switching off the lightbulb if everything is read in a particular forum) is all 3.5 is doing as far as i know (but this is still way better than the - in my opinion completely useless - store of max 20 thread states in a cookie that times out with every new session)
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