Hmmm, OK, it's not just for me that they behave unpredictably, then. All I think I really want from Web-based discussion forum software is to make the target of the hyperlink to view a thread change whenever there is a new message. I.e., include somewhere in the hyperlink the number of messages in the thread so far. Then the Web site doesn't have to track whether a thread is new (or relatively new) to me or not at all. Instead, my browser's display of visited vs. non-visited hyperlinks would indicate to me whether the thread has changed state since I last read it. As it stands now, threads change color based on whether I've ever read the thread, but there could be new messages in the thread and I'd have to depend on the folder representing the thread being red to know that, or track when I last read FlyerTalk and compare that time against the last post timestamp on the thread.

Oh well, it seems most discussion forum software think that they need to try to do something more clever but works more poorly in practice. (Yes, I recognize that a problem with the browser hyperlink color schema is that it then doesn't work very well to read FlyerTalk from multiple browsers. But I don't think that works terribly well with the glowing light bulbs / red folders, either.)

Anyone from FlyerTalk reading this?