^ This. Once I log on and catch up to all the posts I've missed, I bounce between the "New Posts" button and "Settings" to see if I missed anything in the threads I'm subscribed to.

If we had "live" threads it wouldn't change, I'd have a gazillion threads open at once and bog the server and people would complain it was slow. Just refresh more goofy. F5 is your friend. Spam it until it stops working.