Maybe I'm just dense and didn't see it in the old boards, but I discovered the "Active Topics" link for skimming through recent posts, and that's pretty handy!!!
There was something similar in the upper right hand corner which read "Today's Active Posts" or something like this. I like the view better in the upgrade and that it also includes Nfic (for those of us Nfic Readers) and can be set to longer time periods than 24 hours. I agree it's handy, especially so now that the links change color once you've read them.
