Two suggestions:

• As a basement community user, I want to be able to click a button that allows me to follow a thread, so that any new posts to that thread will send me a notification. Then I can keep track of the conversation in my favorite threads.

• As a basement community user, I want to be able to click a button that allows me to un-follow a thread, so that new posts to that thread will no longer send me a notification. Then I can abandon a thread when I grow tired of it.

added to the never ending pile of tasks. in the meantime, maybe adding a bookmark for your threads bookmark page might help mitigate missing any new posts

by default, all threads you post in or create will get auto-bookmarked, but you can also turn that setting off in your settings

I would like to second this request.