I remember a time where all sites like this would have RSS so people can monitor for updates easier in the background.
I'm not meaning for all private messages and such, but would love to be able to see when masses of new topics come up when I don't have time to be refreshing.
Just figured this was a perfect application for it.
I notice that there used to be.
If needed I can help setup an 'offsite rss feed' that gets fed updates every 'x' seconds, to avoid the main site getting slammed by auto-requests if that was why it was removed.
part of the power of rss is the feed itself should be generated and then stored as a static document for multiple people to read, rather than personalizing each request.
this means, yes it might be up to 15-30 seconds out of date, but it simplifies the server resources needed to serve and also generate.