Is there a way to get links to new topics and new responses on the forums? Most forum engines have those, but I can't find it here.

Do you mean that you want subscriptions (email notification of new posts)? Well, the feature is supposed to exist, but it appears to be broken at the moment. Subscriptions appear to be working for Frenzy Mail, just not for forum posts.

Hopefully this will get worked out soon, because I use it all the time.