Vox Immortalis Forums - New Posts Count & Real-Time Feed Added

A few people expressed the desire to add the new post count indicator on the new forums that existed for our old forum software, so that feature has been reimplemented and should be visible at the top left when viewing the forums or any sub-page within the forums.

The new post counter will automatically update itself every 60 seconds, or if the arrow is showing (as seen in the shot above), a user can manually click the counter to force a refresh. As usual, clicking New Posts on the left will display those new posts that were found.

Note: This is a beta feature and thus I've already found a few bugs with it (namely sometimes when you view new posts the counter will still reflect you have new unread posts until you manually click the Forum Actions > Mark Forums As Read dropdown button.) Hopefully these minor issues will be worked out in the next release but for now we'll leave it running.

Another similar feature has also been added to the forums -- a real-time new post/thread feed. All users should see a new "Real-Time Feed" nav button and that will direct you to the real-time feed page. This page auto-updates with any new posts/threads/comments every few seconds, thus it's a handy way for users to keep a browser tab open on this page and be updated by new activity quickly.

Lastly, by request, the forum icon to indicate a new post has been made a bit "more vibrant" to better stand out from the normal forum status icon.

Old icon: