Max...I am convinced I can tell the difference in loading time from yesterday to today...it just 'feels' faster....

also...this new feature has SO many virtues!! I can often tell when I see who has posted recently which threads I want to read!Being able to quickly scan down that list of 'messages since my last visit' tells me a LOT of things! And I can control how often it changes...(or, rather I MUST control how often it changes,)

uh...one other thing...what ever happened to 'sort ascending' & sort 'sort descending'? Did that just die as a concept? I was actually using that for awhile...I'm ok with this, but on some of the long threads, it was a handy feature....