When I come to this group, the first thing I almost always do is click on the “View active topics” link. The link is, I’m pretty sure, set up to only show posts from the past 24 hours. This means that no topics will be listed if none have been active in the last 24 hours, and that is unfortunate for me if I haven’t visited the group in a week or so. And it’s all the more unfortunate because in that case the page lacks the option to view all the topics that have been active during the last week, etc.
The solution: set the “view active topics” page to show the ten or fifteen most recently updated topics, sorted in order from most recent to least recent.
Anyway, that’s my suggestion.
Greg