About the "read new" function, specifically.

For those old players like me, who may go months gone, and have a desire to come back, ... the read new doesn't really work all that well.

It will only allow so many pages of results, and those are usually taken up by the two main graveyards.... It's almost impossible to find things on gameplay, ask an immortal, and announcements that have happened since I've last been around easily.

I just wondered if there was a way to easily mark a whole forum as "read", or otherwise exempt it from the read new button.

Just go to the forum that you don't want to see, and click "Mark" up near the top. It'll mark everything in that forum, including sub-forums as read.

Since sometimes the posts are long and people might post more to those while you're reading the other posts in the forum.