I always use the "Show Unread posts since last visit" .. which shows the threads that have new messages .. so if there's 10 messages posted to 10 threads, you click 10 times and read the new messages.
What I'd love is some sort of "Digest" of new posts, all plopped into one page. 10 new posts from 10 threads = 1 click / 1 page.
Any chance there's a SMF plug in to do that?
Looks like there is a digest mod. But it needs to be updated to the latest rev of SMF. Actually, we need to upgrade SMF (the final version of 1.1 is out), but I've been waiting for a couple other mods to catch up to version 1.1.
I'll keep an eye on it - good suggestion.