It even shows/notifies about new replies when we come back to the thread's tab some time later (without full reload of page). And holding mouse a few seconds on a thread title shows first and last post.
Though AUS is a developed country, it is still no way near US/NL/FR/DE/etc or even the UK as far as hosting is concerned. Probably same with ISP. That's why an aussie developed rsync, bandwidth efficient file transfer logic.