New Posts button

[Mudbug]

sometimes I use this when I have nothing else to do and just want to see what people are talking about. The weirdness is that the number of results changes every time I click. Sometimes there's 20 listings. Sometimes 13. Sometimes 10. Sometimes 19. You get the picture. Any rhyme or reason to it? Or am I just to slow to figure it out on my own? (entirely possible )

 

[reaper]

I always figured it had to do with how many posts had changed within a certain time frame, like 15 minutes or so. So more activity means more changed posts.

- reaper

 

[Rower_CPU]

AFAICT, it's based on how many new posts came in since you last visited the forums and checked posts. If I check it very couple of hours or so it's around 30, but after a busy day it could be over 100.

 

[question fear]

dumb q-where is the new posts button?

 

[Veldek]

dumb q-where is the new posts button?

When you're in the forums, there's a menubar at the top. The 5th point from the left is the New posts "button".