I don't like it. With the way it is now all that I can tell is that somewhere in 18 Author forums there are new posts. Not very helpful.
And before anyone suggests "view new posts" it hasn't worked correctly for me for the last month or more. For instance if I refresh the main board and see that there are new posts in 8 or 9 forums and then hit "view new posts" it may show them all, but more often than not it is some subset or even the error message that says "Sorry, but we did not find any matches to display...."
The only way I have been able to fix this is to hit click "Mark all posts as read" then things will work for a while but it always breaks again within a few hours.