… the merits of the ‘new posts’ link.
It seems to save me having to click on each forum one by one in the forum jump dropdown lookng for new replies.
(this is hell at work where ‘work’ is an hour of activity at the beginning and seven hours of babysitting a computer system)
It almost seems designed for me. (it returns posts/threads that the SDMB has no record of me having viewed)
Does this feature use the search, and in turn hinder the reliability of the board?
Fuck the “new posts” link!
Oh yeah, why is this in the pit? 
because I originally meant it to be a pitting of myself for taking so long to realize this and in my drunkness forgot to include in the post the bits I meant.
Does this mean you want help pitting yourself for this oversight? 
I’m certain it’s a search. If you click it, then hit the back button and click it again immediately, you get the admonishment for trying two searches in 30 seconds.
It is. The properties for the link include the URL: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?do=getnew
Don’t be so hard on yourself. Some of the brightest people in, um, my underwear have only recently found out about the new posts link. I discovered it last week while tracking that post about Michael Moore that got everyone so riled up. You know, the one where people disagreed with each other?
I don’t use the new post link after finding out the number of posts dedicated to TV. YUCK 
How could anyone disagree about what Michael Moore said?
Oops, sorry, that’s still a secret isn’t it?
I just like to say"Fuck the candidates, they both suck." Maybe I’ll find a good forum in which to say that.
Well if it’s any consolation (to the forum software) using it instead of using the forum jump to check the forums one by one meant I was using the sdmb a lot less.
The old way, by the time I got to ATMB I was wondering if anything new had appeared in the pit, so I’d go round again. with the new posts link I can see all at once and so go and find something else to do for [sad amount of] minutes.
“forum software”??
:smack:
since when does this place run on ‘software’, it’s hamsters you fool!