I have noticed a few new members have remarked that they have missed posts because they have appeared in forums they don't usually look at.
The best way to avoid this problem is to make active topics your first point of call when logging on to the forum in that way you see all the posts that have been made since your last visit, you can also use the drop down list untitled active topics since to look back up to two months.
An easy way to be sure you miss nothing is to put an icon on your desk top for active topics To do this all you need to do is get the active topics page up by clicking on the link top right and then on your menu bar click on, File.. send.. shortcut to desktop. you will then be able use this to log on instead of going to all forums every time and nothing will be missed.