UPGRADE to the FORUM engine

King Crimson776 wrote: ^ hardcore, bro

Well Paolo, if we had the last 10 posts back, we wouldn't have to whine about it! 

As for me, well I liked the fact that the last 10 posts were shown on the front page of the forum, at the bottom.  Easily accessible and I didn't have to click on any links.

I also liked the fact I could roll the mouse cursor over the topic title and see the first part of the post, so I could decide if it would be interesting to me.

Yes the Active Topics is there and is very useful, but the other day I had to trawl through 9 pages just to find the latest posts (and many of them were old dead threads) that interested me.

So I see no reason why we cannot have both features, as they're both useful.

In my case, from a general rule, when I would log into the site I would go to the active topics section to catch-up on posts in threads that I found interesting or new threads that have been made since my last visit.  Once I was caught up to date, I would then go to the front page of the forum to see the latest 10 posts.  At that point, as new posts were made, you could hover over to see if the comment was interesting and worth clicking into, or click on the post and it would take it to the latest post.  Dare I say, it was a nice tool for us anal retentive types who want to keep up with all of what is going on (you know, don't want to miss a thing).  Since the change, I have been able to accomplish this similarly within active topics, by just listing latest posts in the last 15 minutes.  It is not as convenient as the most recent posts had been, but it nearly accomplishes the same objective. 

How about "10 last replies on your threads" feature?

I meant "Active Topics".

Edited by Geck0 - January 07 2008 at 14:36

I agree with Heavyfreight, I also find the Last 10 very useful.  I do see a reason for Recent Posts as well, but why can we not have both?  Often the Recent Posts can go up to 9 pages (it did the other day) and it took me ages to go through it all.

Last 10 Posts is more useful to me and when I hover the mouse over the link, it told me the first words of the post, which was useful for determining if I found it relevant and/or useful to view in full.

Sometimes The Velvet Room, The Grey Room and some other threads, did dominate the last 10 posts, but that was often at quiet times on the forum or when the American East Coast Teenagers are awake.

"Recent 10" ... seems like a totally useless feature to me. Usually there will be much more than 10 new posts when I return to the forum even after a few hours. Active Topics is the only thing I need!

^ hardcore, bro

Easy Livin wrote: I can't see that one, anyone else finding this?

I just checked IE again, and the box below the original post has an ad in it, I didn't see it originally in Firefox because I must have been blocking it.