It's just been a less busy time of the year. I think a good number of people have lost interest in something of a predictable season.
But there are always fewer posts during the weekend.
A warm suggestion
I almost exclusively navigate through the threads with use of the "New Posts" link as well, Hustler, and I'm quite certain that there have simply been less posts this past weekend, thus less threads appearing with a click there. No change....it's based on a comment made within a specific time frame I am pretty sure.
Lol! That´s because I´m coming from the third world! Let me explain. There were som days when I entered to the discussion board that I found about three pages of new posts. It represented an easy an updated way to know which were the hot topics and the interesting ones. Unfortunately, this week- end when I was checking them I discovered just two or three new topics. What´s the reason?