All I know is I loved the way I could default to view forums by “comments” which meant titles and last poster only.
This seems only available now in the everything forum.
That would be this page
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/posts:news-forum/
News/activism clicked, then “comments” clicked
Yea, two clicks to get there
It should default to comments, maybe it will when John is finished
If you want to see what the latest posts talk about, click full