Posts are backwards why?

[Fyron]

Yes, that would be the ideal solution. But, most people here on Shrapnel do not share your views that it is horrible and that it is even relevant. The content is much more important than the sorting order. You may not like the reasons for it, but others do. The common way not always the best way. There are other forums out there that sort Posts in newest to oldest order. Most of the better forum software packages support sorting in both orders.

[ February 03, 2004, 00:39: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[calmon]

There are some good sorting features on other Boards:

- One button with normal thread from oldest zu newest.

- Additional Follow-the-Big-Thread Button when the site has more then 1 page. If you press this button the newest Posts will be displayed first.

It works very fine on www.wallstreet-Online.de The greatest german community board for shares/investments

[Tiltowait]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by aldiss2:
[qb]The "people who have been visiting these forums for years" are a self selected sample, how many people do you think didn't like it and never returned?

Not very many. Most people that have come to these forums over the years have not been so fickle as to leave just because they did not like the sorting order. The content is what matters, not the sorting order.

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Non sequitur.

And if Shrapnel is foolish enough to ignore irate customers to satisfy someones ego over these bass-ackwards forums, they deserve what they get. I for one avoided them for years (though I occassionally purchased a Shaprnel game) and the second a good dominions 2 forum starts up elsewhere, I will be gone again- the people here are nice but it's always irritating to visit them.

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by Tiltowait:
And if Shrapnel is foolish enough to ignore irate customers to satisfy someones ego over these bass-ackwards forums, they deserve what they get.

So what do they get? I really think we should come back to earth. We are just talking about the sorting of the Posts and now people are talking about leaving the forum for good. Don't you think this is a bit over the top?

[Tim Brooks]

Hi All:

Sorry some of you have problems with the sorting order. We have done this so that we may provide better support. It is much easier for us to see the new Posts quickly than to go through many pages of Posts to get to the new. And after 4 1/2 years, we now consider it the norm as most of our forum members do.

We have new software that I believe will allow you to choose the way you would like the Posts to be presented. We tried to install this and found the conVersion to be a long drawn out process. With three new releases (Coliseum, Dominions II and Starfury), we just can't have the forums down for a week to 10 days right now. The new Users rely on information here to learn and better understand the games.

Once things settle down a bit and we can find the time we will upgrade the software, but that won't happen anytime real soon.

If you must leave us because of the way the Posts are presented, we will hate to see you go. Hope you try us again in the future.

Happy Gaming!

[QuestGAV]

I am going to have to throw my two cents in here. While it may be difficult for you and your current board readership to switch to a new topic, it's certainly hard as hell to completely redefine something that we've all learned since we were toddlers: that you read from top to bottom. Reading up is a huge hurdle to getting involved in these forums and your games. Obviously it's your board and you've got a way of doing things you're happy with; just consider that you're placing a hurdle to customer retention by trying to train people to read from bottom-to-top instead of the natural way.

[Sand]

If fixing the post order is on your work queue, that's all I can ask -- obviously paying the bills is more important than this stuff. I would definite put in a strong request to upgrade when you have time available though!