I hate to sound like a miserable nit-picker - you guys are doing a great job, and we're almost there - but that 'NEW' function isn't working quite right. Since reloading, the active topics page did show a mixture of topics with/without NEW on them, but I've been refreshing a few time over the last 10 minutes and topics are moving up the list as new replies are added, but they aren't getting the NEW label - maybe it's not picking them up if I've looked at that topic today, rather than since the post was added?
Liking the return of the asterisk though!