The yellow/white icon thing never works for me because I access these forums from both work and home, but I certainly don't feel the need to dig through the threads themselves! I load a thread in 'view all' mode, scroll past the first post to the list of replies, and look for the most recent time/date stamps and highest reply numbers. It's not instant but it's a lot faster than thumbing through the text.

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this world created by the
hands of the gods
everything is false
everything is a LIE
the final days have come
now
let everything be destroyed

--mu