Two things that I would like the see:

1.  When clicking a choice in the drop down menu that it opens up in a new window.

I use Mozilla-Firefox and depend heavily on "Open in a new tab" and with the drop down menu here that isn't possible. So I have to click the choice and it replaces the the current window. I don't like that at all.  I am often searching for things for people be it in the forum,  free stuff or the MP and not being able to open a new page from the drop down in a new tab is highly inconvenient.

2. I'm a bit confused by the colours of the thread titles.  I notice that when I open a thread into a new window that the subject line on the main page of that forum turns gray. I like that part. 

However, while  I have used the "mark all read before " this morning when I came here I had a bunch of orange subject lines mixed with gray ones. I wasn't sure what was going on and what I had read and what I hadn't read.

I clicked "Mark All Read" for that forum, now i have a bunch of gray subject lines mixed with white subject lines.

These varied colours are very confusing. 

If I'm marking something "read", why can't the colour be changed to the same colour as the ones I have actually clicked on and opened up?

And then there are the stars. I'm confused about those too. After I marked the forum "all read", some stars are white and others remained yellow.  Shouldn't all of them be white since the thread was marked "read"?

I'm so confused because I can't tell what I've read and what I haven't read now.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi