Reverse thread replies order?

TerranC · #1 August 8th, 2004, 01:37 PM

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All in all, as conVersions go, this is a sweet one. (knock on virtual wood)

Could have been sweeter if the reverse order was retained...

Edit: resolved

Gandalf Parker · #2 August 8th, 2004, 01:48 PM

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?

The edit window size (and I believe the forum sequence) are part of your personal profile settings. Go ahead and change it.

TerranC · #3 August 8th, 2004, 01:51 PM

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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 · #4 August 8th, 2004, 02:14 PM

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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.

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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 · #5 August 8th, 2004, 02:56 PM

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.

Fyron · #6 August 8th, 2004, 03:21 PM

The poll creators didn't care about a balanced result. They never bothered posting a link to it in the SEIV forums. It did not really represent an accurate tally...

The problem is that there is always room to post a complaint, but how often do people start threads to say "I like the sorting order?" Not very often at all. And when people complain, a single post (or poster) of dissention is often sufficent, so not many others bother posting against the complaints.

In the SEIV forums, there has so far been only a single post where someone said they did not mind the new order. No Posts about "I like the new order." All Posts that have mentioned the post order have stated that they prefer the old order.

Renegade 13 · #7 August 8th, 2004, 10:34 PM

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The poll creators didn't care about a balanced result. They never bothered posting a link to it in the SEIV forums. It did not really represent an accurate tally...

Very true, I just have a bookmark that takes me directly to the SEIV forums. I never visit the other forums at all, so I wasn't aware of a poll going on. Personally (and I know I'm not alone here) I prefer the old order, or latest post first, then going down to oldest.

Ed Kolis · #8 August 8th, 2004, 10:49 PM

Say... would by it by chance be possible, if you can't make an option to reverse the thread order for those who liked it that way, to have the link with the topic's name as its caption go not to the first post, but to the first *unread* post, like ezBoard does? Pretty please?

Loser · #9 August 8th, 2004, 03:23 PM

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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.

If you were going to take a vote, the age of a person's profile should modify the worth of their vote based on the average 'churn' for profiles of that age. This would grade teh votes based on the actual chance that the person voting would stick around to complain about the result in the future.

Heh.

I'd love to meet someone who thinks implementing that would be a good time.

Anyway, forget the newbs, they don't know what's good for them. Please flip the post order back around.

Or give us another chance to vote, another poll. Now that it's actually happenned you might get more telling participation levels.

Roanon · #10 August 8th, 2004, 06:56 PM

Takes time to get used to the new look, first glance and first opinion: the old one was better. But maybe I'll get used to this. Page width is out of order, font is too large - I prefer not to scroll endlessly and despite my age I still can read more than 2 lines of letters per screen

. Ability to choose the font size by individual preference would be ideal, so the forum could accomodate grandfathers with reading glass allergies and small-print used 24/7 compi-gamers alike

And, of course, the correct reading order again please.