New Posts?

I don't believe there is a way to do that through Xenforo itself. Whether someone has come up with an add-on that might accomplish that is something I'd have to research. I can't promise that I'll have time to do that today, or even in the next couple of days, but I will look into when I can. My work-week normally begins on Friday but I haven't actually even started it yet, so I've got some catching up to do.

 

I don't play too many of the games either, so I generally don't use the New Posts feature. Rather, I just look at the forums that I'm interested in and they'll be highlighted if there's a new post. Later, when I have time, I try to at least read everything that is posted here, even in the games, but that's not necessarily the first thing I want to do when I come in.

 

I never use the new posts feature either. I do exactly the same thing as @Ken Anderson does. I check for the newest posts in each catagory, and then I usually open up that catagory if it has been active and see what other new posts are there.
I never ever play games, and usually do not get involved in any threads that posts pictures of food or recipes, etc; so that makes it pretty easy for me to find the catagories that I am interested in.
Plus, I check my news feed for the people that I follow; so I do not miss any of their posts.
When I find posts that I agree with, I always try and remember to like the posts, as well. It makes me feel good to know that someone liked what I wrote; so I always assume that other people like to have that little "pat on the back", too.

 

In reference to the opening post of this thread, I cannot find a way to allow an individual member to block certain threads that they may not be interested in, such as the games threads, from showing up in their "New Posts" results. I could set it so that posts in the games section would not appear as "New Posts" but that would be across the board. Games posts would still count toward the number of posts that a forum member has made, and count in every other way, but I do have an option to block posts in certain sub-forums from showing up in "New Posts."

I don't play the games often, and sometimes that's all that I see when I click on "New Posts." I can live with that just fine, but I can see that it might be annoying to others who don't participate in the games part of the forum. But then, those who do wouldn't have them appear in their "New Posts" results either. Sub-forums with new posts would still be highlighted, so it would be easy enough for anyone to know when there has been new posts in these areas, but they wouldn't show up in the "New Posts" results.

 

Yes, they'd be easy enough to find, but I don't want to offend those who play the games, which is why I thought I'd put it up for discussion.