Glad I'm not the only one.
I never log out as then I'll have to remember my password to log back in. The old version every time I left the page it reset the count. I know this as there were a number of times I'd be going through the new posts and accidently click onto another site, and when I came back everything was gone and I didn't know what was new or old. Ole well.
They stopped doing that before this change. You don't show up on your own screen as being signed in.
Mine is working just fine as far as the numbers.
To each one thinking their's isn't working correctly to reset the unread posts try this: log in, open each unread thread/post or mark it as read either by marking the whole section 'read' or each individual post, then, log out, give it a minute, log back in, go into a couple of threads, log back out. You should now have NO unread posts. Unless you have been absent from here so long that you have posts you never got caught up on reading. At that point, go to each section and click the 'mark read' button to clear all sections of unread posts. Then, when new posts come along you should see them if you sign in and even if you don't. The counter should show you new posts in whatever section they were submitted. When you sign in, open it and read it, they will still appear when you close out and new ones will be added to the old number until you sign in the next time. Then, when you actually get signed in the number should only reflect those that are new since the last time you were in.
Try to follow my rambling. But I don't have a problem with mine other than I wish it would actually zero out when I sign out.
Brent