This is the emptiest I've seen the recently active threads box since it got expanded, I'm quite sure!
Wait, what?!? This thread did not get any posts for over half a year?!? How is that possible? o_O O_O
It's the opposite for me. 7 on desktop and 10 on mobile. I thought it was just me misremembering until it was posted here.
There should be no difference unless you're logged into different accounts... The Recently Active Threads box shows the 20 (or was it 15?) most recently active threads, but hides those that you don't have access to (eg. supporter forum and mod forums).
In the last few days I also have a random number of threads there. now I got 12. 2 days ago got fewer. aah, that would explain it
These observations are pretty accurate. Activity on the EMC forums is not like it once was many years ago. I remember coming on here one time and all "recent" posts in that box were from over 5 days ago.
I believe that the recently active threads box only shows threads that have been active in the last 48 hours, so I don't think this is possible.
That seems highly unlikely. Oh! That would account for it being shorter recently! Did you get this belief just from personal inspection?
Yes. I noticed that when the list was short, threads would disappear from it after 48 hours had past. It hasn't occured to me before, as the limiting factor used to be the maximum number of threads (10 and now 20), not the time.