Heh, actually my original post was almost identical to yours, then I edited it later that day thinking it was due to a refresh issue and then just left it and forgot about it until your post; because I believe most of us just started finding those topics manually by entering /active/my-topic in the URL. 

Another issue that some of the users who have been here for a while are experiencing is watching their bug reports go unchecked for weeks/months while someone later reports the same thing and receives hundreds of dollars. It happens a lot and some of us are trying to get the original bug reporters the credit they deserve by pointing it out when it happens. ;)