one cool feature that came with 1.9.6 Beta1 was that right to the "Active Topics" link in the navigation there was a "red notification counter" which showed up whenever there had been new messages posted which are listed in the my topic page.

this notification bubble disappeared in the RC1 - its still available for private messages - but no longer for discussion messages 😮

is this by design and this notification bubble will not appear again - or was the feature too buggy for the RC and will be rolled out later ?

CHris

But in 1.96 beta this feature was to database heavy especially on large forums with many users.

Until there is a better solution for this feature it is suspended.