Sorry if this has been suggested already, I searched but couldn't find it.

View new content is much better than in 3.1 but one little annoying thing is that we click to click on each of the sidebar links (members, Gallery, Downloads, etc) to check if there's new content in them. Obviously, most of the time there is nothing new.

I'd like to see an icon besides the link when there's something new so I could know at glance what sections of my board I need to look at and stop wasting time clicking on 5 links just to get 5 empty pages.

A little dot before the sidebar links indicating new content would be okay.

I can see a lot of use for this. Would help reduce page loads and members spending time clicking links.

Not sure how easy it would be to implement at this stage tho.

Good idea!