## Unread Posts since your last visit.
Pretty self-explanatory, tells you how many unread posts are on the forum since your last visit, or since you last used the "Mark Forums Read" feature.
New Posts: ## (In ## Threads)
Same thing really, only it details both how many new post in how many different threads. I've noticed that this one is a bit glitchy as it sometimes doesn't display correctly.
Nonetheless, lately I've just been manually going through forum-by-forum and clicking on the threads I want to read. I'm all for lists, but I hate really long ones, and since this site is growing rapidly, I always sign onto the site with at least 2 pages of new posts - I don't really like that.
Besides, that way I can check the forums I actually want to view and don't have non-interest forums in my search results.