it was a link at the top of the all forums page, basically a one click way of seeing if anyone replied to my shit recently

what you're describing sucks because there doesn't appear to be an easy way to access my profile (aside from typing that url) and it doesn't appear that the page you are referring to shows whether a thread has new posts in it or not (with an icon, as before)

Basically every upgrade has made this functionality worse and worse. On the ancient version of the forum, there was a button at the top of the page that literally showed all the last threads you've posted in sorted in order of newest updated. Then the last version had downgraded that button to a smaller link which led to a page that had all the threads you've recently posted in in the order you'd posted in them (as opposed to the order that they'd received updates, the result being that sometimes someone would reply to an older thread I posted in but I never know about it because its way off the first page), and now the functionality is decreased to having to tediously go to my own profile to click the view my own posts button, which leads to a page that doesn't appear to show whether threads have been updated since last I read them.