I see very few latest posts. In particular I was going to look at the latest Starship thread. When I search for it from Firefox history I find a post from Dr.Strangelove a half hour ago–but I don’t see that in the list of latest posts.
Do you have any muted categories? If you go to https://boards.straightdope.com/latest?state=muted and see anything there, that means those threads/categories ARE muted and won’t show up in your regular, unmuted “Latest” posts.
You can configure muting in your preferences, at https://boards.straightdope.com/u/your_username/preferences/tracking. For you that’d be https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense/preferences/tracking
Otherwise, if you right click on this and open it in an Incognito/Private window (depending on your browser), it should show you all the latest posts without any account-specific filtering: https://boards.straightdope.com/latest (but you won’t be able reply from that window since you’re not logged in)
Yes, I forgot I had the elon-musk tag filtered out.
Thank you.
I’ve noticed forum indexing issues usually come down to caching or recent backend changes rather than lost data. Searches lagging behind new posts feels common after updates or reindex jobs. Waiting a bit or triggering a manual reindex often clears it up. It’s annoying in the moment, but I’ve rarely seen it mean content is actually gone or broken long term.