Manual refresh might suit the majority of casual users. On desktop, 30" display:
1. Small type in the table. Suggest upping the size to standard forum post size. Time stamp can be kept same size. I have some small general gripes about some of the nav/copy across the entire site for accessibility (eg. WCAG 2.0) purposes.
2. Unsure whether reaction-only entries (e.g. likes etc) should be in there or whether they can be removed or filtered. It's the replies that hold the most value, content-wise. The icons are a distraction when reading down the page.
3. Perhaps the character style for the linked thread or post should be in bold to set it off from the replying poster's name. Or/and possibly include the forum's name the reply has been posted in e.g. Mac Community, Site and Forum Feedback.
4. Not sure of the current forum's back-end and features, but if there's a way of highlighting or tagging poster's names that are in your contacts/friends list, that might be helpful to many.
Seen you've added the forum title. Cool.
