Reverse thread replies order?

[TerranC]

The edit window size are part of your personal profile settings. Go ahead and change it.

It is! Wow, thanks.

And we have the option to delete Posts again!

TerranC begins to jump in joy

[Fyron]

I thought that going to a "community chat" sequence instead of a "customer support forum" sequence was the big reason everyone asked for the upgrade?

This is not the case at all. Certainly, some whiney people on the Dominions Boards did, but most people over here were content with the old order.

that the order was going to become an OPTION in the Users profile (one of the reasons we shelled out money for this)

The order is NOT an option though. All we can do is change the order that the topics are listed on the pages that display all the topics. Posts within a topic are still displayed in the annoying "oldest to newest" order.

[Gandalf Parker]

Well the subject seemed to come up often enough. You cant really gauge it by how many stuck it out.
Personally I always did like it the old way but I figured it was just my customer support background.

The poll in the shrapnel forum always stayed fairly equal. most complaints were by new people. However the board format is still being worked on so it might flip around some.

[Gandalf Parker]

Hmmm OK everyone needs to go to the "My Home" thing and check out the options they have. One of the things I noticed is that the "email me when Im PM'd" looks like it was turned off. There are other new options you may want to turn on and off also.

[Colonel]

i like the way the Posts are now they were in reverse of every other site i've been to but i hate haveing to directly reply to the post instead of just a general reply to the thread plus the continue and then add reply crap

[Fyron]

Go into My Home. Then Display Preferences. Find the entry for "Do you want the preview post screen off or on?" Set it to Off. Now, you will be able to make your Posts with one click, rather than having to preview it first.

[Roanon]

I'm also very much missing the different symbols for read and unread topics. A major PITA to check every thread just to find out that there are no new Messages.

[Richard]

The new threads are differently colored. Brown means there are new Posts.

[Fyron]

I'm also very much missing the different symbols for read and unread topics. A major PITA to check every thread just to find out that there are no new Messages.

In the Replies column, it lists the number of new, unread replies in parenthesis after the number of replies. Also, topics with undread Posts in them have a different background color in the topic list. Unfortunately, the lighter background color is the same for read and undread topics, so that needs fixing.

[Roanon]

A number in the column so far to the right where the useless information is that usually is ignored anyway... not good. A symbol says more than thousand numbers . Also, two different coloured backgrounds for unread topics, for a total of 4 colours: why so complicated if a simple symbol like in the previous board - or in any other good board on the web - does is better? Just making it different for the sake of differences does not mean making it better.

If you want to give as many informations on a quick glance as possible, they need to be as simple as possible. If you can get these informations in a quick glance, without having to start conscious thinking - like, now which 2 colors of the 4 were for new topics?? - it is much quicker and more relaxing to read.

Also, an individual choice between preview or post directly when submitting Messages, like before with 2 simple buttons, is much better than a general preference.