all topics cleared of new posts except for GD and The forum because they have protected topics I cant get into read.

Lets see the conversations start flowing now.

BTW anybody interested in having a mass chat room session to get that feature going. If your interested just post a time you think you might be available.

4 hrs later and I have it cleared again.

you mean where my black squares go away?

I like how I did it. Much easier to tell when areas have new posts than the annoying default way where there is still something there either way.

You could also click near the bottom of the first page to "mark all as read" to clear those out too. But better to read them .