On TIW I see the most recent 3 posts previewed for every thread I'm watching, plus a number in a speech bubble which is presumably the number of new posts since I last viewed. However, this number doesn't seem to change once I've been in a thread and read the latest posts, and I can't 'bump and reset' so that I'm only viewing the most recent post or be able to collapse ones that haven't got any new posts.
So there is no way of scanning TIW and seeing what is actually new to me. If the number could be 'zero' that would help (although I don't know what it would be based on - even posting on a thread doesn't bump it to zero - my post could be the most recent and it'd still show i have 99 posts in the speech bubble - unless that is supposed to always be the total number of posts in the whole thread since it started? Which doesn't add anything for me at all in TIW, that's not how I use it.
Ideally I would like a quick equivalent to 'bump and reset' so that only the most minimal info about that thread (eg thread title, or only one post previewed) is visible when I'm scanning TIW.
I post a LOT on MN and this might be the thing that stops me using it so much - it's genuinely prohibitive for how I use it.
I know I can 'pin' a thread in TIW but I can't see that many times I'd do that - it still doesn't have any functionality to show whether there are or aren't new (to me) posts.
I was in touch with MNHQ some time ago when they were planning the removal of 'bump and reset' so I had anticipated this but I thought there might be a way to even note for ourselves whether we are caught up with a thread's posts or not.