At some point during the current wave of system updates the forum is now far less eager to mark old posts as read so I'm now getting used to do that manually. For that I actually like that Mark Forums Read link's placement.
@TerraEpon I have the Link to New Posts bookmarked (
https://vgmdb.net/forums/search.php?do=getnew ) so that's where I actually start visiting vgmdb each time and never try to (mis-)click on New Posts link. Maybe that's helpful to you too?