# Go to first new post doesn't seem to be working.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-first-new-post-doesnt-seem-to-be-working/797578>\
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**Created:** [September 29, 2017, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-first-new-post-doesnt-seem-to-be-working/797578 "2017-09-29T05:41:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-first-new-post-doesnt-seem-to-be-working/797578/1 "2017-09-29T05:41:40Z")

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When I click on the red arrow, it just takes me to the last post in the thread. Even clicking it for a thread I’ve never read before it takes me to the last post in the thread.

Is anyone else having this problem? Is it going to be fixed, or should I just ignore the red arrow from now on?

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-first-new-post-doesnt-seem-to-be-working/797578/2 "2017-09-29T16:17:09Z")

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It hasn’t worked right in years.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-first-new-post-doesnt-seem-to-be-working/797578/3 "2017-09-30T11:09:29Z")

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Works fine for me, always has.

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**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-first-new-post-doesnt-seem-to-be-working/797578/4 "2017-09-30T11:21:12Z")

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Its never worked, it still doesn’t work.

It doesn’t go to the last post though, it picks a random post for me. Never the last post that I read though.

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-first-new-post-doesnt-seem-to-be-working/797578/5 "2017-09-30T18:10:10Z")

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For me it is working as well as always, which means it takes me to what out thinks is the first post I haven’t read. Usually that is pretty close.

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**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-to-first-new-post-doesnt-seem-to-be-working/797578/6 "2017-10-01T04:57:04Z")

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It generally takes me to the first post after my last log-in, regardless of whether I actually opened that particular thread at the time. I usually have to scroll up to where posts start looking familiar.