Forum Thread Sort Order, possible suggestion to the mods/admin

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I dont know if this is worth considering or whether everyone is happy the way things are, but Im just wondering about the following...


When I go on one of my posting sprees, I unfortunately bring those posts all the way back to the top of the forum section, so looks like the database order on threads is last-post, first. In the case of today's post, i've gone in 2 or 3 pages into a thread to reply to some zero-count reply posts.

I think if people post something up, it deserves at least one comment to show someone is interested in what they post. There's nothing worse than seeing 40 or 50 views and no one has bothered to post anything back.

However, I see there's plenty of 0 replies to posts that quickly disappear into oblivion, pages into the section. The most obvious issue with that is, if someone replies to a post that is several days, months or even years old, it brings it right back to the forefront of the thread section, which isn't a bad thing necessarily - but if I go commenting/posting against some threads, I can quickly and very easily push threads off the first page, unintentionally. Plus I then annoy the hell out of someone who has 0 replies and hasn't had a chance to get some comments back (which is probably what happened to the zero-count posts I've gone and posted back against).

I'm lucky that I get to work from home most of the time, others cant get into TP until after working hours, or even worse, people on shifts just get to see a load of older posts, with a load of comments on, that they wont comment against, because they've already had some feedback.

There's nothing intentional about it, (though anyone could, if they wanted to, post someone into oblivion) and in the case of people getting 0 replies to a post which has their hard-work attached, it can be a bit of a moral destroyer.

SO what do you think about changing the sort order of your threads in each section to be <lowest count> first, then by last post date.

That would leave 0 and low count-commented threads a bit more of a chance to get replies to. It would make no difference to posts where plenty of people are commenting (who really wants 20 or 30 replies to a post, there's not much to be gained from posts with more than 6 or 7 replies <really> as they tend to either (1) get repeated (which in the case of critique, becomes an annoyance) or (2) goes completely off topic while unanswered threads just go off the page.

Just my 10 pence worth. Please keep this thread on track, rather than go off on critique stuff, I just want to know what people think about the ordering of threads, regardless of where it stands in the sections (unless particular sections <should> have a different order sequence). :)
 
I can see that annoying the hell out of a lot of people to be honest, though if people do want to view like that, just clicking the headers in the board listings sorts them as you wish, by title, by number of replies, by time, etc, either ascending or descending [click again to reverse the order] The default of course is by last post time.
 
This is a particular issue seen in the macro section... I do try and reply to 0 reply posts as much as possible and as said above post with inane banter tend to stay at the top to the detrimental effect of pushing others posts down the list.
 
Yv said:
I can see that annoying the hell out of a lot of people to be honest, though if people do want to view like that, just clicking the headers in the board listings sorts them as you wish, by title, by number of replies, by time, etc, either ascending or descending [click again to reverse the order] The default of course is by last post time.
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well i didnt know that!! :) Thats fantastic, though I think if others might not know it, they might just end up making a thread like this one :)
(the new forum software is a lot better than the old version so whoever coughed up for the upgrades, thanks!)
 
Carlh said:
well i didnt know that!! :) Thats fantastic, though I think if others might not know it, they might just end up making a thread like this one :)
(the new forum software is a lot better than the old version so whoever coughed up for the upgrades, thanks!)
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s'alright, I only fell over it by doing it accidentally a few moths ago with this stupid magic mouse, wondered what I had done at first :lol:
 
Tintin124 said:
This is a particular issue seen in the macro section... I do try and reply to 0 reply posts as much as possible and as said above post with inane banter tend to stay at the top to the detrimental effect of pushing others posts down the list.
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Never has a truer word been spoken, I used to be as guilty as the worst when it comes to that inane banter and do still regress into it from time to time but the amount I've seen in some sections outside of OOF recently is shocking even by my low standards :(
 
@Yv

I don't use the app as never can find talk photography on the tapatalk software search.

So I just mobile browse using Chrome is that option available there too?
 
Yv said:
s'alright, I only fell over it by doing it accidentally a few moths ago with this stupid magic mouse, wondered what I had done at first :LOL:
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You see I found it on purpose and even started a thread about it, as an interim solution to the UAPs while the boss was still writing the coding for the new UAP search

But I'm a button presser, I will see a button an wonder what it does so will press it, it's why I got the sack from Chernobyl :naughty:
 
Tintin124 said:
@Yv

I don't use the app as never can find talk photography on the tapatalk software search.

So I just mobile browse using Chrome is that option available there too?
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Not talking about the app Bryn, I never use it either, I am talking about standard browser use, so should apply whether you are using a computer or a phone browser. Try it, go to the macro section so you are looking at the list of threads, then click [tap] one of the headers, everything should resort into order of that header. Remember stickies will always stay at the top, so look under any of those.
 
MWHCVT said:
You see I found it on purpose and even started a thread about it, as an interim solution to the UAPs while the boss was still writing the coding for the new UAP search

But I'm a button presser, I will see a button an wonder what it does so will press it, it's why I got the sack from Chernobyl :naughty:
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you should work as a software tester, maybe Microsoft or Apple - they might release something that works then :) made me laugh yv :clap:
 
Carlh said:
you should work as a software tester, maybe Microsoft or Apple - they might release something that works then :) made me laugh yv :clap:
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Lots of buttons :P I'd be in my element
 
Yv said:
Using my phone i can see all the headers if i turn it to landscape format, but its a Note so does have a huge screen. Not sure if you can expand them if you cant see them. We need an experiencd button pusher to have a play:naughty:
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You cannot see them all on the iPhone 4S regardless of the orientation however if you go to the bottom of the page in whichever forum and change your thread display options to the following

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