I thought maybe it would handy if at the main page, at the bottom, you could see what the last post was, and a link to a page where you can see something, like, the ten last posts. It would make seeing what's new more easy.
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top of the page. Not as detailed, granted. If you want to see the latest post for each forum, just click the hyperlinked date. (Could we get a mod where instead of the date, it gave "last post by *person* in *thread* at *date*?)