# View New Post Question **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 14, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/view-new-post-question/148618 "2003-01-14T22:41:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/view-new-post-question/148618/1 "2003-01-14T22:41:40Z")
Whenever I come to the SDMB to read and/or post, I always use the View New Post feature to peruse the board… I find that it’s much easier to use that than it is to try and read each individual forum. Anyway, here recently I’ve noticed that when I click on the link that there’s a sudden cutoff at random hours that I know isn’t right. For example, I usually come here between 10:00pm and 12:00am local time after viewing the board at about the same time the day before to find that the “new” posts end at about six or seven pm. I know I haven’t been here to read the threads or mark the fora read so what gives? Anyone know? Is it something I’ve done or am doing? A glitch here at SDMB? It’s annoying and I feel like I’m missing out. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/view-new-post-question/148618/2 "2003-01-14T22:53:18Z")
The “new posts” should be any post created 15 minutes after your last “action” on the board, where an “action” on the board could be anything from clicking on a thread to read it, to editing your profile, to adding a post to a thread, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/view-new-post-question/148618/3 "2003-01-15T03:22:19Z")
Ah, that explains some of it but what about the times when I haven’t been on the board all day and it still cuts off at some arbitrary point in the day? Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/view-new-post-question/148618/4 "2003-01-15T05:08:02Z")
Don’t know.