On a very large forum I often visit gathering.tweakers.net they haven a cool feature called bookmarks.

You can bookmark a topic and even single posts. When I visit that forum I press "Bookmarks" and get a screen like "new posts" on ipb but then only the bookmarked topics.

On this screen I can sea quickely if a topic was replied to. :cool:

Topic Tracking is the same... See 'Topic Options -> Track this topic' in the top right corner of the topic...

Still miss the option to quick look at my bookmarks easily. Currently you have to go trough "my constrols".

We have got this question several times. Members access the forum from several places and want a bookmark list thats always available.

I suggested star topics like Gmail does.