Can’t you make it so that all unread posts show there by default? Requiring people to dig up the preferences and manually insert each and every forum section into a “watched” list doesn’t sound like a good idea. There’s not even an option for “all” or similar. You really have to go through each and every forum section and add it. And if the forum adds a new section in the future, the watched list will be out of sync. Users need to manually keep an eye.
It’s safe to assume that most people won’t be doing this, so more posts will be going unnoticed from now on compared to before, where we could:
- Click “view unread posts.”
- Read the ones that seem interesting.
- Click “mark forums as read” afterwards.
This seems no longer possible, unless you jump through broken-by-design hoops to get it kind of working?