I've just been bookmarking by posting a "bookmark" post, as before.
fast_and_bulbous specifically mentioned on the new CHE fora discussion threads the ease of using system bookmarking so I'm wondering about that function.
I don't mind seeing threads I'm less interested in show up; it only takes a second to click on it, close it without reading, and be on my way.
One does not even have to click on each thread; one can read the interesting ones and then click to "mark all read", if the flow is such one can get through most posts most days.
I have a bazillion responses left in my replies list because the CHE fora got too big to read everything everyday and I ended up with months where I could do little or no reading. At some point, I just stopped looking at the "new replies to your posts" list as being far less relevant than "unread posts since last visit".
In the past month, the CHE list of "unread posts since last visit" has tended to be very small. Even when I'm away for a couple days, the number of threads having new posts may be less than a dozen. Time was, overnight would result in a good dozen active threads to read the next day.