Hey there
Just so I understand. When you come to amigalove.com, if you see a red area on the left of the homepage, that means there's new unread stuff in there (you already know this, I know).
It's sort of hidden, but on the far-right of the screen, there is a link to the most recent addition for a given board.
So:
And if you click through to a forum, on the far-right each of those links would take you to the last post on a given thread. So if one of those topics is red, then you should be able to find the most recent additions. If it's really
active sometimes you have to scroll up to see where you left off.
But I'll be honest. I don't use those a ton. There is a way on each board to "subscribe" to them - and even at the topic level.
A long time ago, I simply went across the top of each forum and Subscribed to each one.
For example, for The Lounge you'd see this:
If you click that eyeball icon, any time a new message is added to The Lounge, you'll get an email notification with a link that goes straight to the new post. While that sounds obnoxious, the community is so small here I might get a small handful of emails a day (maybe 2-3 on an average day). And if I click the link it just shoots me straight there.
But If I forget, and just go to the homepage, I follow the big red blocks and click their corresponding links on the far right. The only "downside" is you can only see the link jumps on mobile web if you are in landscape mode for size reasons. You'd not see those jumps at all in portrait mode.
In desktop, you pretty much can see everything all of the time.
Is that helpful? Or are you looking for something else and I've totally missed it?