Ive been on other forums and on the front forum page there is a 10 most recent post section and it realy helps people gettin answers faster. And helps people who just started topics get looked at and not just brushed over.
Just my 2 cents.

Our version of PHP software doesn't support that. We do have "view posts since last visit"

If you're looking for answers to your posts, use the reply notification. If you're asking for an easier way to get people to respond to the newest posts? I think answers come to over 95% of questions, but sometimes people don't want to chime in until others have.