Our new forum now places an alert bubble over the name of the forum node in the navbar which contains threads that you have not read yet: Obviously you can go into those nodes and read the threads that you haven't read. This feature is intended to remind forum users of content that may have passed through the Recent Threads sidebar too quickly. It will allow potentially valuable threads to not go unnoticed. You can easily clear the alert bubbles for forums and subforums (nodes) that you do not care to read by double clicking on that forums node icon: Thanks for reading