Big Blue Dots

[Ducky Havok]

Okay, this is something that's bugged me for a little while but I never bothered asking about. What's with the big blue dots on the left side of the forums? What I mean is why are some blue and others not? And it's always the same ones that are blue because at first I just thought it was whichever forums had the most members. Any real reason or did someone just decide the site looked better with them?

[ecoli]

I'm fairly sure it has to do with when the last post was made in the thread... but as to the time limit for the dot to appear, I'm not sure.

[Ducky Havok]

I think you are quite right, because I just looked through and those were all the latest posts. 3 minutes to answer a question that's bugged me for a little while maybe I should of thought of the more obvious possible reasons

[Phi for All]

There is a key at the bottom of the page.

 

Big blue dot means: Forum Contains New Posts

Non-blue but equally big dot means: Forum Contains No New Posts

 

Just because you're a genius doesn't mean you can skip reading the directions, Ducky. Look what happened to Wile E. Coyote.

[ecoli]

I figured it out... it's not a time limit thing. It has to do with your cookies, the browser knows when you've visited a thread, so the non-blue dot image loads instead.