# What if Pit threads didn't show up under "New Posts"? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 15, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-pit-threads-didnt-show-up-under-new-posts/838703 "2019-08-15T17:08:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-pit-threads-didnt-show-up-under-new-posts/838703/41 "2019-08-15T22:58:54Z")
New Posts is actually extremely useful on a general-knowledge board like this. I would guess that many people find threads in many different forums interesting. For example, these threads might all be interesting even though they’re spread across many different forums: - How do telescopes work? - Should I get an InstaPot? - The new Avengers movie is great! - The lines at the self checkout move too slowly - Does God exist - Who the F@#\* said you could cut me off in traffic! If you find most of the forums interesting, it’s very convenient to use New Posts instead of clicking on each sub-forum. But it also makes it that much easier to waste even more time on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-pit-threads-didnt-show-up-under-new-posts/838703/42 "2019-08-15T23:13:32Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > I had no idea people used new posts to browse. Nowadays I use User CP to check the threads I’m subscribed to (most of which are threads I’ve posted in), then I use New Posts to browse. Years ago, I never used New Posts, but instead browsed the SDMB a forum at a time. But that was when 1. There were fewer forums to check, 2. I don’t think I checked the SDMB as often, so there was more new stuff in each forum each time I checked, and 3. The board was slow and creaky, and the Search feature that New Posts uses severely taxed its resources and was limited to one every 2 (?) minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-pit-threads-didnt-show-up-under-new-posts/838703/43 "2019-08-15T23:14:53Z")
**Joey P** ’s suggestion in this thread (see Posts 11 and 14) might be worth sticky-ing, ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-pit-threads-didnt-show-up-under-new-posts/838703/44 "2019-08-16T15:50:51Z")
I think it is _horrible_ that people are forced to participate in threads in The Pit.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-pit-threads-didnt-show-up-under-new-posts/838703/45 "2019-08-16T18:23:03Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’ve been on the SDMB for a decade and never used New Posts. Not on purpose anyway. Same for me (except it’s seventeen years for me). Took me two minutes to find the darn link - I never look at that blue bar at the top unless I’m searching. I just always go in forum by forum. For me, I never go in to Elections or Thread Games, so those are the ones I guess I would exclude. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-pit-threads-didnt-show-up-under-new-posts/838703.md?page=2)