Can I make this forum sort the "normal" way?

[japinard]

I'm way more used to having the original thread at the beginning, and this forum is totally against the grain. I've looked at my profile and can't find an option for the default thread view.

Thanks for the help!

[aldin]

Not really, but you get used to it. A quasi-workaround is to use the "printer-friendly view"

~Aldin

[Karacan]

I don't get used to it, especially after browsing other forums.

It's like playing Dominions. You think you know a game, and suddenly something happens to surprise you...

[BugRoger]

Same here. The way you have to scroll down first just to scroll back up again cracks me up...

[AStott]

Yes, and the fact that you naturally read top to bottom usually makes it more natural to continue reading the next post that way.

Also, if there is a particularly busy thread, so you got to the second page to read where you left off, and then someone Posts while you're reading that page... Well, when you go to the first page to continue reading, because of the new post, one of the Posts that used to be on the first page will get pushed to the second, and you will therefore completely miss it.

Definitely poor design. I'm not sure what the Shrapnel guys were thinking.

Anyone else wish there was a way to know what the Last post is that you read in a thread? I have to skim through Posts until I find one that looks familiar. Ick.

[Xom]

Yes, reading this forum can be very annoying. Maybe someone from Shrapnel give us some *rational* explanation why they made forum this way (they are extremely stubborn about this backward design, no matter what Users say).