Toby
Discussions with unread posts are not bold, but are a normal weight and color, like read discussions are currently.
Discussions with no unread posts are greyed out somewhat, so they draw less attention.
Only followed discussions with unread posts are bolded.
I thought it sounded neat at first. But after pondering for a while, I've been having second thoughts.
- We've already got the star badge thingie to distinguish between followed and non-followed posts.
- Whether a post is read or not is also a binary distinction.
- Greying out posts seems more appropriate to something like locked or deleted threads.
What you suggest would make the All Discussions list less ... oppressive, if you will. But it does so by giving thread titles three states where two should be enough. I'm afraid that will be less intuitive than what we've got at the moment.
Maybe we should step back and consider whether there are other, less obtrusive ways of indicating whether a thread is read or not. Icons, background color, font variation ... I dunno ... there has to be something. (This might also be a good idea from the perspective that bold type might not work as well for some languages as it does for others; though in the end that's something that may need to be dealt with by the localizer.)
