We've already got a facility for checking whether there have been any more posts on a thread - the "messages since last visit" under "Quick Links", up the head of the page. You can set your links to the Mudcat so that they go directly there instead of to the main forum index, if you like. (I say "they" instead of "it", because I assume people have multiple links to the various servers rather than just the one to www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm).

What would make the "messages since last visit" more convenient would be if there was a reset button for that actually on the forum page, which would make it easier to push it just before logging off, and keep it up to date. (Just an idea for some future modification, no hurry - along with a preview facility for PMs.)

What I still tend to do with threads I've been following is forget to click along to the most recent page of fifties, which means I find myself reading posts that seem oddly familiar, until the penny drops, normally when I come to one of my own. I don't think that's such a bad thing either. Makes me less likely to repeat myself, a failing I share with quite a few others here.