What are the pro and contras for the cookie system?
• Advantage: With larger forums the normal cookie system has faster page-loading than the UPI2DB system, because this system must load the information about posts that have been read from the database. A further advantage is that the data will be stored over many months, because you don’t delete the data from your machine. This is interesting for users who only visit the forum every 2 months. Disadvantage: The largest disadvantage so far with this system is that you automatically mark all posts as read by closing the browser. A further disadvantage is, that edited posts won’t get marked as unread again and therefore won’t get any further attention.
