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I realize that most of us hate change. We will find many glitches and things with the new update that will need to be fixed. So be patient and let me know what you see that isn't working. Keep in mind, that as I type this, the upgrade is still going on so some of these bugs may go away. There is still quite a bit to do with the upgrade.

Seems to work properly for me. I can see that NT was the source for the "like" on your first post in this thread; and I was the source for the "like" on the second post.

I noticed when someone likes a post now it doesn't show a name..it just says that 1 person liked this post.

Bit of an update. Ever since November, time I *should* have been spending on my weekly column frequently got sucked away by people - including relatives - demanding that I drop everything to help them out. I finally exhausted the stockpile of pre-written installments because of this, and so I sat my mom down on Monday for a very long talk about everything and how people need to leave me alone long enough to get things done. As part of it, I noted that I was now having to submit installments week-by-week instead of month-by-month, something made even more egregious by the fact that I had nothing ready for Valentine's Day. My mom just presumed that I could dash something off, at which point I explained to her - in detail - all the garbage I've had to deal with because of the "If you're not a missionary, then you're worthless" nonsense that contaminated the stake and how that's played a large part in my being single. (I haven't had a date in 10 years in part because of this.) I'm hoping that I finally got through to her and got her to back off on a lot of things, not only the demands everyone's been placing on my time but also the incessant questions about why I'm still single. But like I flat-out told her, the stake was so poisoned by this nonsense that I'll likely have to relocate outside of the stake boundary if I want to ever find someone.

"Unread content" looks like it might be what you're looking for.

On the upper right of the page there's a "unread content" link you can click. You can also mark an entire thread as "read" so it doesn't continue to come up.

From the 1980s to the early 2000s, church leadership in numerous stakes went to extremes in pushing young men to go on missions. In order to add to the pressure for young men to go, young women were told repeatedly that when it came to dating, they should only consider returned missionaries and reject all others. No thought was given for the prospect that young men might have had good reasons for not going; instead, the young women were told "If a guy didn't go on a mission, it means that there's something wrong with him." My stake was one of those stakes. It doesn't matter that I stayed back home to help my mom take care of a mentally ill relative. All that matters is I never went on a mission. People don't ask questions beyond that; they just "know" I'm a blight upon the church.