I find it easy to open the forum and then open a thread in a new window. I can then close that window and still have the forum open in the background. I can also have several threads - or forums - open at once. I miss the feedback of the "visited links" color that was in the old forum (the equivalent of the yellow star turning to grey as soon as you've read the thread. @Casette It sounds like you've got the "Notify" checked in the "Edit Forum Options" on your "My Options" page. That appears to notify you of every new thread. However, what you want to do is to make sure the "Notify me when someone replies" is checked on the threads you participate in. That can be found under the text entry box on the Thread page. There's also a "Subscribe" option unter the subject line of the Thread page. If you select that you should get ebot notifications when someone posts to a thread even if you didn't post anything. In other words, no more having to post something just to bookmark a thread. Once you've subscribed to a thread, it turns into "Unsubscribe" so you can stop getting ebots.

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