I really don't get it guys. With the old way, when you leave the forum (or took too long to write a post), new posts that you did NOT read would AUTOMATICALLY be marked as READ without your doing! This means would MISS new posts unless you REMEMBERED when you LAST visited and MANUALLY looked through the read posts and find posts newer than that date! Then you would have to manually find that first new post in that thread. You find that convenient?!?

Now, it is IMPOSSIBLE to miss new posts unless you intentionally mark a forum as read! It's as simple as that! Remember, you only need to click on the down arrow before the thread's name to automatically jump to the first unread post in a thread. How can it be more simpler?!?