I have not experienced this web display behavior, but, I don't ever log off. When I need to log on (lets say the site was rebooted or I cleared out my browser's temporary storage), I check the little box on the log on page that says to keep me logged in.

I'm no IT expert, but I have a hunch that if you don't sign in, your browser might be displaying a previous version (older version) of the web page because that page is in its cache before it will display the most current web page.  That's one way the browser can provide a faster route to displaying the page.

I suggest that when you come to the web site (and if you're not logged on), press the f5 button on your keyboard to refresh the page. That will cause your browser to go out to the website and get the latest page.

If you continue to see these discrepancies, I suggest you send an email to Peter at Member Services. 

Dean

@rustoholic Thanks Dean. The F5 did absolutely nothing. The icon that I thought was for " refresh" comes up as " Reload current page" and no change. I amusing Firefox for the browser so will try a different one. As far as contacting Peter -tried that via phone and Email and no response so far.No change using another browser. I'll wait for contact from Peter.

No change this AM and still waiting for response from the "ADMINISTRATOR".

@steve-d I just logged out and clicked the Recent Topics button. It shows the same as what you say you see. When I logged back in, it was a different view. I have no explanation for why other than, when the Recent Topics button is clicked it shows posts in descending order (most recent first). Everything else is ascending order (oldest first). Why the difference and whether it's changeable I have no clue. To me it's not an issue because I never log out unless it's to do a test like this one. I can kind of see that someone might think there's no activity because any new posts will not be at the top of the list but, using my personal behavior as a reference, when I visit a new site I never look to see when the last post was made. If I see an interesting topic I click on it.

@tiny All I can say is if I were a new "visitor" and saw the same leading post three (or more?) days in a row I would not bother to go back. Strangely (to me anyway ) when I got the notice in my regular Email that there was a reply to my thread and clicked the link it brought me right to your post that was 4 hours old and I did not have to log in to view it.

The coding in the software is something I do not understand. I wasn't part of the decision making process so I have no real clue as to the factors at play when the directors made the decision to buy this software but I feel (strictly an assumption on my part) that price played a large role and, as the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. I don't want to put words in his mouth but I seem to remember a group Zoom meeting with the Webmaster and some of the Mods where he said he asked to board to buy different software. Again, I wasn't part of the discussion so I don't know why they purchased WordPress.