Iron, when you first click onto Discussion Forum and the three choices on the next page appear (Gen. Disc., Small Talk, Test Forum), you'll immediately see whether there are any newly- remarked upon topics in them if the lightbulbs next to them are yellow (lit up). If they are yellow, that means since the last time you visited that forum, a new post has been made (not a new topic thread, merely a new post). Then, when you click on say, General Discussion, you will see a list of file folders. The ones in yellow are where a new post has been made since you last were on. (Even if it's the post *you* yourself made previously.) All of the newest posted-to topics are on the top of the list. Therefore, if you are randomly selecting topics which do not have yellow file folder icons next to them, it is true that perhaps that topic hasn't been added to for a day, a few days, or even a week or more. That is why you find yourself "in the past," so to speak. While anyone can bring up any old topic thread and add to it, unless a topic has had a post made to it that day, the file folder icon next to it will not be yellow, and that is your first clue that there is nothing new posted to that thread since last you visited it.
Sheryl
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