# After 3 years and 4 months I am only just finding out... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 12, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641 "2004-07-12T01:43:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/1 "2004-07-12T01:43:02Z")
… 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? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/2 "2004-07-12T01:45:47Z")
Fuck the “new posts” link! Oh yeah, why is this in the pit? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/3 "2004-07-12T01:50:48Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/4 "2004-07-12T02:12:57Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > 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? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/5 "2004-07-12T02:18:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/6 "2004-07-12T02:28:17Z")
> [@Garfield226](#): > > I’m certain it’s a search. It is. The properties for the link include the URL: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/) **search.php**?do=getnew ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/7 "2004-07-12T02:55:18Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > 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. 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? ---
**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/8 "2004-07-12T03:36:23Z")
I don’t use the new post link after finding out the number of posts dedicated to TV. YUCK 😕 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/9 "2004-07-12T03:36:32Z")
> [@groo](#): > > 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? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/10 "2004-07-12T23:25:51Z")
> [@Garfield226](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-3-years-and-4-months-i-am-only-just-finding-out/254641/11 "2004-07-13T00:02:22Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > (to the forum software) “forum software”?? :smack: since when does this place run on ‘software’, it’s _hamsters_ you fool!