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When you're logged into the boards, your account keeps track of what you've read and what you haven't.
For example, when you're looking at the list of threads, you'll notice that threads you've read have a grey icon and threads you haven't read yet have a blue one:
This helps everyone keep track of what's going on and means we don't have to open a thread to check if anyone's replied. If someone replies to a thread we've already read, that thread will become blue because there's a new post we haven't seen.
The same applies when we look at the forum list. If we've read everything in a forum (e.g. Start Here), it will have a grey icon. If there are posts or threads that we haven't read in that forum, it will have a blue icon:
The 'Mark Forums Read' button will turn everything in the forum(s) you're currently looking at grey - as if you've read everything.
People find this helpful because if everything is marked as read, anything that's posted now will have a blue icon. This makes it easier to see what's happening where
Does that answer your question?
Yes that makes perfect sense..... Ironically I've been thinking about why some icons are blue and other white,but I thought that would be a stupid question to ask lol :P
But, one last question...... My icons have been changing colour and I haven't pressed the "mark forums read" , why is that?
Whenever you read a thread, it is automatically marked as read (which makes sense). - so threads you've opened will have grey icons.
If you haven't read a thread, or when something new is posted in a thread you have read, you'll see a blue icon.
The colour of the icon is designed to let you know what's new, so will keep changing as long as things keep happening