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Ryushi
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Sequence of postings in a thread is a little bit strange

Hi John,

is it possible to change the sorting of the postings within a thread? It is a little bit hard to find and read new postings in a "hot-thread".

eg. (1.) = first posting; (2.) = second posting and so on:
this is the actual posting sorting settings:
(1.)
..(6.)
..(3.)
....(8.)
....(5.)
......(7.)
..(2.)
....(4.)

I think this would be much better readable - especially when people don't "reply" but "add a new comment" when answering to an other posting:
(1.)
..(2.)
....(4.)
..(3.)
....(5.)
......(7.)
....(8.)
..(6.)

Maybe it is possible to include individual view settings or change the (general) view settings if other people have a hard time to follow discussion in an 20+ postings thread, too Wink Thanks in advance.

Cya Ryushi

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Right now...

It's set to new first, and keep the thread. I can alter it to old first, keep the thread or flat newest first or last if there is a preference. I kinda like the thread layout, but you're right, it does make it harder to see what's new.

I'll enable the thread controls, after we figured out a good default, too.

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I agree

This is a great website--I'm thankful for all your hard work, John.

I agree that it is difficult to find new posts in the forum. If there was just a map or index of the posts that displayed the subject line, author, and posting time, that could really help us to be able to quickly identify the new activity.

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Updated to oldest first - threaded

I updated it to chronological, threaded ordering. This seems a bit more natural. The most recent comments will always be at the bottom OR the most deeply nested.

If folks like this better than the other (newest first, threaded... which may be more awkward), I'll keep it as default and then enable the controls so everyone can set it the way you like it.

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Thank you very much

Thank you very much Smile

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I Agree

I agree with adding commant only, but at the bottem of each it should be Add commant insted of reply

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thanks John

thanks John

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I prefer flat, newest at the

I prefer flat, newest at the end. (Like phpBB and the e107 forum system.)

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Comment pagination & user controls

The only trouble I have is the comment pagination on huge threads - you can't get it to mark new comments unless you skip page 1 and go straight to the URL of page 2 (i.e. typing the address manually). That's only a problem on one thread here at PortableApps, so hardly a big issue.

You could enable the per-user controls to let everyone decide their favourite comment layout. I personally like things as they are.

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I also don't like that new

I also don't like that new messages on the 2nd (or later) pages of a thread are not marked as new.

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