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"maybe it will be handy just to keep an eye on a particular thread when i'm browsing somewhere else."
This is what we were hoping.
As I said, there was barely any developer time involved at all, it's just me messing about with ways to display the mobile site. It's practically a freebie.
It defaults to the latest posts, so as least you can check what's going on on AB easily while doing something less important :)