I'd like to be able to use an nntp newsreader, rather than a web browser, to read the messages here.
Advantages of doing this include the ability to subscribe (or not) to individual message boards, scoring of articles/posts on regular expression rules, ability to read offline, and the ability to ignore individual threads, just off the top of my head.
For example, I have no interest in the IC roleplay boards. I can set up a newsreader to grab every new message from everything but Mechwarrior Hall, then highlight topics with posts by Herb or Cray, but don't bother with any thread that I've marked as uninteresting, Herb or no. I can set it to gather these posts at specified intervals, so that when I come home from work, they're all gathered and ordered for me with threads I've marked as most interesting first, regardless of which sub-board they're in.
A newsreader has better, more powerful/configurable versions of the tools to watch or ignore threads.