Do you mean "Go to new posts" under the individual title threads, or the "Show new: posts, active threads" links in the upper right?

The system determines what's "new" based on the last timestamp you were here, rather than whether you personally have opened a thread. So if you drop in briefly and then have to close the window before you're completely caught up, it will think you've read everything and reset all the "new posts" markers.

I miss that behavior of cellar.org as well.  it's how I moved through the threads.  the adaptation I've made now is to logout when I'm leaving the computer or when I'm done viewing.  that still doesn't provide the same interaction though, because all threads that had been updated when I was logged in, even if I'd not yet opened them will be misidentified as having been read when I do return to them.

I've also been paying much closer attention to the datestamp on the most recent post in a given thread and if it's within the timeframe of my last visit, within  a couple days, I click on it and wind backwards to find where I'd left off.  It's *not* optimal.

Ooh, that is an excellent tip!

Flint wrote:

There is a solution--
I click on Index, then scroll to the bottom of the page, and click Show recent: active topics
Not "new" just "recent" --it actually errs on the side of still highlighting things that I have actually read.

And things that it doesn't highlight, for whatever reason, don't disappear. They're still "recent" and still listed.


 

I do the same thing from the top of the page.

yep yep that's how to do this site