I have never bothered with the 'New Posts' link. Instead I go to the main index and work my way down the highlighted thread subjects, ignoring those that I think hold little or no interest for me.

Very often, having reached the bottom of the index, I go back to the top and start again because that is when all you chaps in North America start posting. In fact, that is why I am so often very late in going off to bed - around 1.30/2.00am!!