# Glitch?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitch/476935
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [December 12, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitch/476935 "2008-12-12T20:48:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitch/476935/1 "2008-12-12T20:48:58Z")

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If I click on ‘New Posts’ then I get the list of new posts.

Normally, I click on a thread, read it, then click ‘back’ to return to the list of new posts.

Tonight, if I do that, rather than taking me back to the list, the board tells me I have to wait xxx seconds before I can search again.

Something wrong here…

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### Author: ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitch/476935/2 "2008-12-12T21:06:27Z")

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FWIW that happened to me too, yesterday, but today it is working the way it usually does (“back” brings me back to the list).

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### Author: ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitch/476935/3 "2008-12-12T21:40:55Z")

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Depending on your browser settings, it may reload the previous page instead of just displaying it. That is what’s triggering a second “New Posts” search. If a glitch is occurring, it’s likely on your browser. It could also be just going past the time limit whereby previous pages expire.