Sadly, this feature is under-utilized. Maybe lots of folks just are not aware of how certain options 'work' on the forum.
It seems that MANY folks still dont know to click the WHATS NEW button, or under the QUICK LINKS menu 'Today's Posts' in order to see ALL new messages posted to the forum since the LAST time you checked, and are still MANUALLY going into each forum section, which doing so I found extremely tedious and inefficient...
To each his own I guess... :wallbash: