I have rarely directly subscribed or unsubscribed to a thread, and never to a forum. I visit half-a-dozen forums regularly, and a couple more occasionally, and like Catlady, I rely on the bolding of threads that I haven't read to show me what's new. If I participate in a discussion I get automatically subscribed to that thread and it shows in User CP, which gives me a quick way to find those threads again - so I tend to check those first and then look in on each of my regular forum for new stuff of interest (or if I'm in a hurry I just use the forum tools to mark everything as read, which clears the bold). It's a little haphazard, but it's been working for me so far.
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