On the home page there is a "Recent Discussions" box. The dots are different colors, for all-too-arcane reasons.

You guys need to add a few lines of code and get a Legend for it. When i first joined it was a nuisance I didn't know, and a friend of mine also pointed it out.

... When i first joined it was a nuisance I didn't know, and a friend of mine also pointed it out.

The sentence was past tense. I've figured it out. But it's annoying, and I was simply recommending a fix. Convenience is one of the top things consumers look for anyhow.

Why would we need a legend?

Convenience is one of the top things consumers look for anyhow.

I would imagine that anyone with basic knowledge of forums would be able to distinguish (and even those who don't) without much difficulty

When i first joined it was a nuisance I didn't know, and a friend of mine also

I don't call it convenience, I would call it unnecessary clutter.

That would depend on how it was implemented, and also would be an opinion [as all aesthetics are].

I totally thought this thread was going to be about some old user who had legendary status. Also, this idea is silly. a:visited is something you see everywhere on the web.

There's a grand total of 2 possible colours.

Red -- threads with posts that you have not read
Black -- threads with posts that you have already read

Also -- http://imgur.com/

I totally thought this thread was going to be about some old user who had legendary status. Also, this idea is silly. a:visited is something you see everywhere on the web.

I thought it was rather simple. Red means its unread, black is read.

How come the unread posts are yellow for me?

When the cookie is deleted shouldn't the topics default to unread? Like doesn't it store the read topics in the cookie, so wouldn't no cookie mean no read topics? As if you were a completely new user.