I'm not opening the threads at all. The fact is there are so many it's hard to find any other threads which just get lost and for me there is a ton of scrolling, so my finger hurts.
And I am continually marking everything as read. It's only fun if you are interested in it. Personally speaking it's rather annoying now. But hey ho someone just email me when purrs gets back to normal. I've been trying to catch up on things Ive missed lately and at the moment it's too difficult for me.