The page will show all topics that have been active since midnight Ranch time. Sometimes (like today) it happens that its contents get flushed, and the topics that were posted before are no longer listed. But that's rare.
An alternative way to get recent topics is use the
Today's Topics link on the Search page. It presents the same information in a similar format, but is not susceptible to the problem mentioned above. You can also get at today's active topics using
this RSS feed. There's even a
Yesterday's Topics link in case you were away from the Ranch for a full day.
[ October 09, 2007: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]