I don't know. I kind of figured there would just be a bunch of enemies and you fight what you want. But your probably right, I don't know much about the game. I'm trying to know as little as possible before I get it.
Perhaps, in the meantime, we can create our own mythos in the absence of real into. Then again, this Is probably all OT for Onis thread....
It's actually not a glitch. What most likely happened is that you may have missed an alert in your alert box, (checking multiple alerts at once.) But anyway's, once you miss an alert or ignore one, you will not receive any further alerts until you visit said thread once more. Art from the recent lottery may be found >>Here<< I'm assuming that's what you were dissapointed about missing.
I know all that. Also, when you get over 30 alerts, you're alertbox is full and you'll have to go to your big alertbox-page thing if you want to check all of them. However, even if you always check all your alerts, sometimes, the system doesn't realise you've checked a certain post, I guess. That's probably what's causing it most of the times. Also, likes don't matter. I'm sorry for being off-topic again. If anyone wants to discuss this topic, feel free to pm me ; )