How about that old "View posts since last visit"

yah ive looked, no dice... tell you what if you can find something ill definitely set it up and install it

ill likely just make a support request about this and someone will likely come back with a fix, or atleast hopefully

The feasibility of doing this is a little more difficult than you might think. From what i have been able to figure out (media aside) there are three content types - book pages, topics, and comments.

All the stuff in the guides section would be an example of a book page.
A thread as a whole is considered a topic
The replies in a thread, guides, media pages, etc.. are considered comments

For this reason, the folders only turn green when there are new THREADS in that forum because the module does not detect the comments after the first post. In fact, a whole thread will be deleted if the original poster deletes the original post.

In order for the folder icons to change colors to indicate new comments, the module would have to be "patched" so to speak to include the comments on made to the TOPIC.

Now, here is the tricky part, if a script were to be written to show ALL new posts/comments since last visit, it would do exactly that. You would get a bunch of comments about this video and that guide as well as forum comments.

welp bingo

there isnt any information on this specific instance, but i may be able to contribute some info for future drupal forum adventurers. i actually stumbled onto a solution using a module named Views. I actually was playing with the "Recent Posts" menu link and that soon led me to creating a new "View" which is essentially what recent posts is... its a highly configurable way to list specific content from the site

so, long story short, i made a new view that only outputs forum topics, and, it outputs them according to the last comment made to a topic. So, in essence, creating something similar to a "view posts since last visit" however in this instance, it will just show new posts in the order in which they were posted.

do note that even on this list, it says how many new posts are inside a topic. although it does not "show since last visit" -- it does keep track of which topics you have already viewed, assuming that you noticed the new posts in that topic. so in essence, this renders a list from newest to oldest that actually tracks which threads you've viewed the last posts in.

rock on. check it on the navigation menu "Recent Forum Posts"

Styol you are the man. Works perfect for myself in viewing post/new replies. In Firefox this am I clicked the Recent Posts and had the list. So as a test I right mouse clicked all the new ones and opened them in a new page one at a time. Did what needed to be done and then refresh the Recent post page and low and behold it showed nothing new anymore which is great. Thanks for the effort bud it will save me at least a lot of time. Peace