MODS - please, please set the default mode as "show threads in original post order"!!
Change it if you don't like it. There are loads of user options available. Go to 'User CP' and you can set almost whatever you like. It's in 'Settings and Options > Edit Options > Thread Display Options'.
Re Vyv Cox suggestion - I dont think it works - you can change many of the display modes but the thing that causes the problem is that whatever settings you go for it is affected by when something is posted OR updated. It's the updated bit that is problematic and we need the moderators to disable if possible as I agree with the other posters that it is a pain to see old threads dragged to the top
Change it if you don't like it. There are loads of user options available. Go to 'User CP' and you can set almost whatever you like. It's in 'Settings and Options > Edit Options > Thread Display Options'.
Good one, thanks for that. I knew it must be there somewhere.
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Dam, just read the above.
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I agree with the other posters that it is a pain to see old threads dragged to the top
Don't quite see that. Surely it's better to see what is actively being discussed. Otherwise a popular and active debate on a thread would get burried under loads of Billy-No-Mates threads with no responses.
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Change it if you don't like it. There are loads of user options available. Go to 'User CP' and you can set almost whatever you like. It's in 'Settings and Options > Edit Options > Thread Display Options'.
No it isn't.
It's at the bottom left hand corner of the thread list, and it needs to be reset every time you visit, or change pages, or reply to a post, or click 'forum jump', or..., or... It's simply not usable.
I was keeping out of this because I've had my say on the subject several times, but(!):
Another plea to get this sorted out.
As for: "if something new is added to an old thread it should come to the top. Otherwise most would never see it." - If I'm interested in a thread, I'll go back and look at it, If I'm not, then I don't want to see it popping up again; And: "Surely it's better to see what is actively being discussed"... Not for me it isn't if I know it's something I'm not interested in, or where the 'discussion' is the same few participants engaging in what should be a private pedantry contest, the like of which would never happen if they were in the same room as each other and more than 3 years old.
(No offence intended to the posters of the above remarks - they're just handy examples of the arguments for the 'last post' brigade )
FWIW, I also think that the 'constant scum of bubbling vitriol' that sits at the top of the forums these days aggravates the normal seasonal grumpiness.
/rant
I'm not trying to argue that one way of sorting is better than any other - it is a personal preference but please (IPC) give us the choice we had with the old forum.
/rant again
Oh, and another thing... (this is the £1 rant, not the 50p one)
The sort order gets really annoying when you get a poster popping out like a cuckoo out of a clock every time a new topic appears and adding a facile and valueless reply. Is there a prize for the number of 1st replies, or something?
MODS - please, please set the default mode as "show threads in original post order"!!
OK, there are two schools of thought with this, some like it that the post stay in chronological order, others like it that the active post stay at the top.
There has to be a default setting, and with it, one group aren't going to be happy, but we can't help that, if we change it, the people that want the most active threads at the top will start a similar thread to this one in the future.
We are however looking at ways so that everyone can choose their own setting and it will stay that way.
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I can't believe people don't like this 'new' way... it makes total sense, as the vaaast majority of forums on the internet also believe. The old version was ridiculous - having to trawl through pages to check if your post in a particular thread had been replied to.
I can't believe people don't like this 'new' way... it makes total sense, as the vaaast majority of forums on the internet also believe. The old version was ridiculous - having to trawl through pages to check if your post in a particular thread had been replied to.
The default on the 'old' version was the same as this
One needed to alter the default setting to get the posts in chronological order, but one had the facility to do so. Most (all?) of the other forums I read allow the same facility. In the end, it's a personal preference, and I do prefer the last post first for low traffic forums, but this isn't one of them (yet... )
I don't see the point in a poll (there has been at least one in the past). I think people are pretty evenly divided on the matter, so a sizeable proportion of people will be p****d off either way.
Incidentally, if you just want to know when/if your post has had a reply, you can set email notifications, etc. in both old & new set-ups.
That only works if you have posted. If you are just following a thread it doesn't work.
The attempt to make the choice a user-selected permanent setting is the route to go.
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Wow! What a lot!
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