I must say the upgraded system for displaying new posts is a step backwards for me.
After clicking the New Posts button I gauged the number of new posts by the page count on the right. If I saw one page, I might take the time to read through the list before I head out again. If I saw more than two new pages, I often didn't bother since it was too much to read.
Now to see how many pages actually contain new posts I have to click on each page number sequentially and scroll down each find the "end of new posts" marker. A couple of times of that and I just gave up, read some of the first page, then quit.
This change probably sounded like a great idea to someone. Please request the developers make this new behavior user-optional with a preference flag. If that is not possible, my vote would be to put it back the way it was.
JKJ