Is it too hard to make the forums easier to see? =(

Did a search on some stuff only to see it being drowned down from other threads...
These are just things that immediately came to my sleepy eye attention

Things that need to be seen BEFORE we click into a particular thread

-date of last post
So we know we arent necro-ing a half a year thread. Being alert is good but we shouldnt have to go to the last post every single thread to see if its within a reply worthy time frame.

-name of last poster
So we know if the thread has been answered. It does us no good knowing 'who started the thread' for over 20 pages of posts

-number of pages on a thread
Pple usually look at the "1, 2, 3, 4.....10, 11" little page numbers and links. Helps us not waste time clicking if the numbers show its over 400 whopping pages long than just seeing "399 replies"