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New Forum - order of post & replies

shutter — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:50:53 GMT

Getting to grips with the new forum.... how about changing the order of posts and replies, so that the original post is number one... and the "most recent" replies are then placed below... with previous posts in historical oder from new to oldest.

at present, it is a "pain" to have to scroll through all the replies to answer the latest comment... when the thread reaches 2 or more pages ( and some reach into the 20 and 30 page register) this can be a real problem.

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

Anotherone — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:14:10 GMT

https://community.plus.net/t5/user/myprofilepage/tab/user-preferences:general

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

shutter — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:20:59 GMT

So, I went to the linky and it says sort by most recent post..... so I saved changes... and then went to another thread, and I still have to scroll through 3 pages to get to the latest (most recent) post ...

Um ...

Erm... maybe it should be changed to "most recent REPLY"

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

bobpullen — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:19:45 GMT

You also have an option to go straight to the first unread post when clicking into a thread/topic.

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

shutter — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:27:50 GMT

And where would that option be hiding?

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

HarryB — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:20:01 GMT

There's a tick box for the option here

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

shutter — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:39:53 GMT

Yeah? well that don`t work either..... I have just come back and logged in again. and searched for my thread, and seeing as your response was 58 mins ago... I clicked on it, ( after doing the adjustment to jump to .......) it came up with my original post, and all the replies in time order from oldest first to newest last....

Perhaps you are confusing the terms "post" and "reply"... the "newest post" could .... could.... refer to either ? ? ? but my point is about the order of the replies.... on the old forum the last "reply" was the one you saw when you opened up the "title" of the post from the board listing...

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

VileReynard — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:53:25 GMT

It's a totally [-Censored-] replacement.

The hardware & Linux forums appear to vanished.

If I search for Linux, I get "did you mean Line?"

Total [-Censored-].

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

Oldjim — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:52:29 GMT

didn't look very hard did you https://community.plus.net/t5/Tech-Help-Software-Hardware-etc/bd-p/TechHelp

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

Anotherone — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:55:30 GMT

Use the Browse Menu to find all the boards easily. The search engine however is not at all good (and I'm being polite).

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

VileReynard — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:57:58 GMT

It's all mixed in with Windows rubbish & stuff about virus checkers.

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

bobpullen — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:10:13 GMT

@VileReynard wrote:
The hardware & Linux forums appear to vanished.

All historic topics have been migrated but there have been some changes to the board structure. The Mac/Linux and old hardware posts are now under Other > Tech/Help.

If I search for Linux, I get "did you mean Line?"

I get loads of relevant results

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

VileReynard — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:13:22 GMT

But there is no Linux forum.

There are some topics that include Linux in the subject title.

This is not acceptable.

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

shutter — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:20:18 GMT

I agree... it was easy to post about any linux subject... now it is a disgrace that it should be "merged" because someone was too lazy to do the job properly,... even some of the well known board titles have been changed to almost unrecognisable forms.... so anyone who doesn`t know the forum, will never know that the old "linux" posts have been merged, and they will try to post in inappropriate boards when the subject may well have been already covered in previous forum boards now lost.

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

bobpullen — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:28:44 GMT

A conscious decision was made to merge the Linux/Mac posts into another forum. Looking at the old site, there have been less than 20 topics started in the Liniux/Mac forum since the start of the year. Those topics can all be attributed to a group of ~10 people.

All feedback welcomed of course, but I can kinda see why the decision was made

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

shutter — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:38:46 GMT

Regardless of how many topics were started... the number of people who accessed them for information, surely, warrants there being a separate board for Linux users... in the same way as we had a separate board for the Windows users..

Conscious decisions can be changed to " sensible " decisions, and revert back to a sensible approach for the consumer to be able to access the information posted...

It doesn`t cost any more to have separate boards on a forum like this does it? so what are you saving, by merging them into the fog and mire department.. all you are doing is making life more difficult for people, instead of "improving" this forum by all the work you have done to "update" it... it is turning out to be a downgrade, just like windows 10 ....

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

VileReynard — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:17:37 GMT

So - if I need to ask a question about Mint or Ubuntu or Redhat or LVM or NFS will anybody respond?

If I want to find out about SAMBA should I add extra keywords such as Windows, Microsoft, Linux?

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

Anotherone — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:24:15 GMT

@bobpullen wrote:

A conscious decision was made to merge the Linux/Mac posts into another forum. Looking at the old site, there have been less than 20 topics started in the Liniux/Mac forum since the start of the year. Those topics can all be attributed to a group of ~10 people.

All feedback welcomed of course, but I can kinda see why the decision was made

I have to say Bob, that I thought from early suggestions about Board Structure that Hardware, Windows, IOS & Other were going to be 3 separate boards. I can't say that I went and looked at the number of posts on Mac/Linux on the old forum but as others have already said it should not be mixed up with Windows and Hardware. Hardware should definitely be separate as well. If I'd realised this was going to happen I would have protested as loudly as I have about the other things you know about.

Can we have them split up please - 3 boards - Hardware, Windows Software, Mac/Linux Software as it was.

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

Anotherone — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 20:08:11 GMT

@VileReynard I don't think creating a Tag MINUSNET was a clever idea. Tags can be very useful, but if the feature is misused, I've no doubt they will get turned off to the detriment of everyone. I'd be obliged if you'd delete it.

Re: New Forum - order of post & replies

VileReynard — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 20:10:57 GMT

I haven't a clue what a tag is meant for, so I abused it.

I'll delete it.