Missing New Posts

I don't know why, but I clicked on the "Miscellaneous and Random Chat" link today and suddenly discovered several threads which I hadn't seen before - just going back over the weekend.

Now I'm normally religious about reading every thread, which lead to my enquiry about a "Goto next unread post" Button yesterday. I could understand that I might for some reason or another (one glass of wine too many?) miss or forget the odd posting, but I've found at least a half-dozen posts, some of which were so distinctive that there is no way I could have forgotten them, had I already read them - and I've only gone back to Saturday!

Could it be that under some (which?) circumstances, the "View New Posts" misses some posts?

Perhaps they were off-topic threads from other forums that I moved into Misc & Random Chat.

Note that the "View New Posts" option only shows new posts since your last visit.

So, if you log out and back in again, the only posts that will be shown in the list are those that were made during the time you were logged out.

Use the "Today's active topics" link on the main page to view all topics that have been active within the past day.

Yes, that might explain it.

I'm aware that the "new Posts" are just since my last visit, but under normal circumstances I always read everything. The only exception is if I pop in at work and get confronted by a list like today's! As a rule I'm usually not online from midday Friday until Sunday evening and all the oddities I found were on Saturday.