Maybe it is just me, but it seems kind of hard to see new posts in unpinned threads here unless you look at the main page and a new post in one of those threads happens to be the latest post. For example, I just posted in the ENSO thread. Nobody else has posted there in nearly a month. For those who follow that thread, is it easy to miss new posts there or not? If not, then maybe it is just me and isn't something that needs fixing.
Another example: The golf thread has had only posts from me about the Masters. All other Masters related posts were in the banter thread. Is that because folks were forgetting about or unaware of the Golf thread or didn't realize there were Masters posts there?