The first in a list of things I should have done months ago, I have added a feed to the forum which you can subscribe to, so you know when posts are made without needing to check in. Since the place is a little slower these days than it was a year ago, I thought that might be helpful.

You should see the feed icon light up in your browser, if you use a browser that does that sort of thing, and that's the simplest way to subscribe. If you want to customize it a bit, you can add your user ID to the URL so you won't get updates about your own posts.

So by default, the feed URL is: http://www.geekspy.net/forums/syndication.php

To exclude yourself: http://www.geekspy.net/forums/syndication.php?uid=1 (replace '1' with your numeric user ID)