@elbranscomb Glad that you were able to crack the reason and fix the issue, and thank you for letting us know how you were able to fix it.  ... View more

wow! I would've never thought that this could be possible - what a great idea! Thank you so much for taking the time to share that 🙂  ... View more

@elbranscomb  Yes, you are right. It will show 0 if you have visited all posts. And will increase if someone add any new post in the board.  @elbranscomb Coming to your questions  -  Only Topics or Articles as well?   - Yes, articles as well.  Do you know of any way to exclude certain boards from the Active Areas component?  - No such settings. You can achieve it using custom development. You can create the same component using Khoros standard APIs and can include/exclude boards as per your requirement.  And another way is, hide the board from lists and menus. Admin > Community Structure > Hover on the board which you want to exclude > Edit Properties > Hide from lists and menus. But doing so, it will be visible nowhere so it does not make sense to do this.  ... View more

@elbranscomb So easy, thank you!  ... View more

@JasonHill It's mandatory. I didn't notice a drop-off in membership back when we added it (but, admittedly, I don't think I looked at that data super carefully :-)) ... View more