Dear Brad129.

Thank you for your message and suggestion.

The fact of the matter that an visible message read counter is very difficult to implement on high traffic sites b/c of the enormous stress it places on the entire system. Such an application would have to make real time read calculations across every HUB tens of thousands of times per day.

This is why you don't see similar applications on Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, Raging Bull and other finance sites with discussion forums. Stockhouse does have it and kudos to them for doing so but the rest of us just don't seem to know how to do it without putting stress on the entire system.

We know it's not the answer you wanted to hear but we hope it clarifies things a bit more.

Regards,
AGORACOM