The "bogus" you mention is "caching because we can't hit the database every time because our machine is not that big and is used by other sites".
Bogus means giving a false impression of the facts. Maybe mention the last time the data was compiled, so everyone knows what to expect.
When one posts a message to the forum, one is taken back to the thread where it belongs, so one sees the message is in there.
I wasn't questioning if my message got posted or not, and I didn't expect to see my message linked on the front page. What I thought would happen, is that my post might at some point freshen the thread so it would appear on the front page. I looked there since I didn't initially find it in my search using 8.1.7.
