Post order in threads

Buzzbomb · #1 February 27th, 2004, 02:59 AM

Well seeing as how this is the ONLY forum that does it this way in the 1000 or so I have read/used, its very frustrating. I wish they would change it to the normal view. This reading backwards is getting old.

And what do you mean no way to change it? I find that hard to believe.

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[ February 26, 2004, 13:06: Message edited by: Buzzbomb ]

Sand · #2 February 26th, 2004, 03:15 PM

Most Boards will have a spot in user profile where you can set "default viewing option" or something like that. I couldn't find one.

(Oh, and nice name Tiltowait

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Gandalf Parker · #3 February 26th, 2004, 03:59 PM

Everything said (such as "all the other Boards") is true. However most Boards which do it in the other order also have buttons which let you only see new Posts since Last you visited, jump to beginning of post, jump to end of Posts, etc etc. Also many of them automatically roll off older Posts so that only newer Posts exist, you cant see the first post. Also important to note, most of those Boards cost a pretty penny to get the software for and take a hefty machine to run.

As far as THIS software.. there might be no way to change it without scrapping the many Posts already done. And if its ONLY the order that would change then I wouldnt really like it. The other order would be good when you first get here but not later.

There IS a poll on this subject in the schrapnel forum (shrapnel general I think)

Buzzbomb · #4 February 26th, 2004, 06:38 PM

Well I agree that changing the format at the cost of loosing the info here is not a option. I just dont have super memory installed in my head and actually like to review the older Posts previous to the ones im going to read at the end. Guess I will head on over and take the poll.

The poll is in the section "Ask Shrapnel Games" for those of you who want to vote.

[ February 26, 2004, 16:41: Message edited by: Buzzbomb ]

Saxon · #5 February 27th, 2004, 11:19 AM

It is funny, I am so used to the Shrapnel Boards that I find most other systems backwards and confusing. May I suggest coming over to the Light Side of the Force and avoiding the other Boards? Yoda wants you to…

Seriously, it is like which side of the road to drive the car on. Both work just fine, but you have to get used to it. A moment or two of disorientation when you change over, then it comes back nicely.

Arryn · #6 February 27th, 2004, 11:29 AM

The "disorientation" never fades. In English, you read text from top to bottom. So you scroll down to where the Last post you read is, read that post from the top down, then scroll up to the next post, read that one top-down, scroll up again, repeated over and over. It's simply unnatural. The idea of having the most recent post on top is only useful if a thread has so little activity that there's a good chance that the post at the top is the next one for you to read (ie: follows the Last one you read). In practice this is hardly ever true.

Another "bright idea" by an engineer (programmers are engineers) completely out of touch with real-world Users.