Suggestion: Can unread posts in Forums Feed be bold and in black

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I love that the Forums Feed&nbsp; shows that there are unread posts. It's a much needed feature that is going to be very helpful. But can you make it easier to spot?When I log in I like the ability to just see a list of the topics I have not yet seen or ones that have new posts. In the past we had a way to display only unread posts. Since that appears to be gone, can we fine tune the Forums Feed to make it obvious that there are new posts?Below is just a screen shot I mocked up that shows the the forum feed with the number of unread posts in bold. This seems to make it way more easy to spot.The top one is in Good Sam green with the date of the most recent post.The second one has already been visited with no new postsThe third one is in black with the date of the most recent post? That way we can just quickly scan and spot the unread ones and see how long ago they posted?Thank youThank you

stircrazy · Answer

we had bold and black before and it was just as confusing as for some of us old guys it just didn't stand out enough..&nbsp; i was thinking a color like red or blue, something that makes it pop, but I think there is more tweaking they have to do behind the scenes.
here is what I am seeing in the different areas

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opnspaces · Answer

I agree on the colors or maybe just larger font? Like instead of 12 pt make the unread in 16 Pt so it really shows.

At the very least I hope they can add the date of the last new post so we can see how old it is. I added the date on my mock up, it does not exist currently on the page.

stircrazy · Answer

ya there is the date of the last post.&nbsp; if you click on the forum or groups then into where you want then scroll down a little bit past the "trending posts" tiles you will see a list of post you can sort in various ways.&nbsp; if you look it has the date of the last activity under each post.&nbsp; so that is how I look for new posts right now, then I have it sorted so the newest post is on top.&nbsp;&nbsp;
I am not positive but I think it doesn't insert replies into the post they are replying to anymore so it just comes up as the latest post from what I have seen.&nbsp; the quote function wasn't working yesterday, so we can use that right now, but I haven't checked it today yet.&nbsp;&nbsp;

opnspaces · Answer

Oh, I didn't catch that. When I saw the name and date on the left side of the post I assumed it was still the original posters name and date the post originated like we had just before this switch. So that would change my suggestion to can we add the words Last Post: before the user name? And group the name and date with the number of new posts? Something like this. Ignore the formatting this was a bunch of cut and paste but you get the idea.

Current display:

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