>>- And on an unrelated note: I am aware that DCF's structure makes it
>>impossible to mark an individual thread as read (as opposed to an
>>entire forum). However, it would be very much appreciated if a "mark
>>thread" or even "mark post" feature were in any future forum versions
>>that might appear -- not being able to mark an individual thread is
>>very frustrating at times.
>
>That's being considered for the new design. The issue is one of
>server load. You'd have to store a 'newsrc' style system for each
>forum user on the server, and check posts against that every time you
>generate a view. For a forum like this one with 200 users that's not
>too bad, but it would scale poorly for a generalized forum system -
>some forums have tens of thousands of registered users.

I acutally had some random thoguhts on this...admittedly, I don't know how well dsome of them would work, since i'm a sysadmin, not a web developer.

Would it be possible to store by-thread read marks client side (by cookie, or something similar)...then, if al lthe threads in a forum are up-to-date, mark the forum read as in the current system?

Again, I have no idea how (if) this would work, but it struck me a while back, and I never got around to posting it...figured I would, now, since it's vaguely under discussion.