What are the pro and contras for the UPI2DB system?
• Advantage: Unread posts still stay unread, if somebody closes the browser, you won’t have to read all the new posts at one time. Posts can also get marked as read for a time of 0 with the UPI2DB system. Forums which are not interesting for you, can be marked as ‘permanently marked read’, until you change the option. Edited contributions are marked as unread with the notation ‘Edited’ and additionally have another color to separate them from normal unread messages. A new search function allows one to look for unread and edited contributions only. When the Admin activated to display edited contributions in the top of the Topics, edited contributions will be displayed at the first line of the topic. Disadvantage: At larger forums with many posts and users, it may take longer to load the page. The information whether a contribution was read, remains stored only over a certain time period, afterwards posts will automatically be marked as read. The standard time period is set to 30 days. B
