I don't have anything showing up as blue, unless what I think of as white is what you think of as blue.

Let's define some terms:

Forum:  This whole site with all the discussions.
Board:  The next level down, like "Shop Talk" or "Inspection"
Thread:  The next level down, individual topics, like "Mark individual boards read/old?"
Post:  Each individual missive from a particular person, like the thing I'm writing right now

I almost never read all the threads in a board, so "read" (which does seem to work as advertised) doesn't help me.

When I've read all the threads I care to read in a board, which is typically not all of them, I want a way of marking that board as "old" (since it won't be "read" since I didn't read the whole thing).  Right now we have that option for the entire forum.  We don't have that option on a board-by-board basis.

So if I read whatever I feel like reading in "Shop Talk" but then I have to go do something else and can't continue on to "Certification" or "Inspection", there's nothing to indicate that I've already been in "Shop Talk" but not "Inspection".  If I go away and come back, I can't tell if "Shop Talk" is still yellow from before, or because people have posted to it since last time I looked at it.  If I have the time to go through the entire forum--"Shop Talk", "Certification", etc., all the way down, I can then mark the whole forum as old, and anything yellow after that means it's something new.  But I can't do this just for one board.  So I have to re-open "Shop Talk" and look at the thread listing & see if they're old or new, read or unread.  I would like not to have to re-open "Shop Talk" to see whether there's something new in there since the last time I looked at it, which at the moment is not possible unless I've also read every single thread.

Hg