I use mark all read too but it really doesn't help much when I keep seeing the same thread in its entirety again when someone posts a reply to the thread which makes for another slow round of loading the full page (and/or image) and I'm on a cable modem. If the thread list showed only the new replies, and an option to read the full thread or back up using previous or next reply, next thread, it would make things go a lot faster still, like the Netscape newsgroup reader does, show unread, hide the read messages unless you click on a number for each of the replies prior to the one you are on. The color scheme here is hard on my eyes too but I still manage to visit pretty often. I can read what I'm typing in this box better than what is on those black pages, even better on an eggshell colored page.