No wait I'm sorry this is what happens when your commenting at 2 am.I was thinking this was another thread for some reason.Anyways if they want to put in the work to do it then they can go ahead and do so.
then scroll south about 46 1/2 miles till you hit the bottom. See the "Online Users" That's what i what to implement on the last post of each thread. So it will show who is viewing the thread. Then the first idea was for the categories...to tell how many are indeed viewing the overall "category"
i think if this does become reality , i think it will make the forums more active in the way of conversation, rather than waiting hours for someone else to browse through, you know where people are and so would reply,etc .