Goto New and Goto Latest show different new posts

[glimfeather]

I use keyboard shortcuts to navigate around Discourse sites including here on meta itself. The shortcut Goto New (g,n) shows me a few new posts whereas Goto Latest (g, l) shows me many many more including both after and before the most recent few visible from g, n. The same problem shows up with Goto Unread (g, u) and Goto Latest

Here are my meta preference settings.

Pretty much the default settings and none that suggest to me why Goto New and Goto Latest should give vastly different results as you can see here in screen shots taken while composing this post.

[Moin]

New is for new topics, so just the first post of a topic, latest includes all new posts.

[glimfeather]

But those posts are all new to me. And by extension the new posts in a topic are also new to me. So these should show up in one or other of Goto New and Goto Unread!

[dodesz (Don)]

Hello, Here is the related part from Discourse New User Guide

@Discourse

Topic lists

By default, the Discourse homepage will show all Latest conversations in the community but you can filter this list in a number of ways:

• By category: in the menu line, click the ‘all categories’ title and a list of all the categories appears.
• By tag: in the menu line, click the ‘all tags’ title and a list of all the tags are used will appear.
• By level of activity: if you click on ‘Top’ the conversation topics will be listed in order of most activity (views and replies) for a specific time period. You can choose whether this is for all time, or select a specific period such as quarter, month, week or just today.
• By what’s ‘New’ to you: by default, new topics are those created in the last 2 days that you have not opened yet to keep the list fresh and relevant. New topics show a small blue dot next to the topic title

• By what topics are “Unread”: by default, unread topics are those that you have previously opened and read for at least 4 minutes, and that have new posts (replies) submitted to them. Unread topics show a number in a blue circle indicating how many new posts are in the topic.