Forum enhancement request

mukwuknuk · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 3:56 pm Post subject: Forum enhancement request

Even if you've gotten this request before, I'm posting anyway, since it will be informative to know another person wants it:

I *ALWAYS* want to see newest posts first, and I'm tired of going to the bottom of the screen and making the change every time, but I don't see this option in my 'preference' settings. Could this option be added to our preferences?
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20484

mukwuknuk: I'm not understanding what you are asking for. From what i can tell, the newest posts ARE always first.
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stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

Yeah, that is the WAY phpBB2 operates.
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krusty_ar · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 12:57 pm Post subject:

I think he means that the post inside a thread are ordered in the inverse order that they are by default (there's an combo at the bottom of the thread page)
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klieber · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject:

If it's implemented in phpBB, we'll implement it here.

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mukwuknuk · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 6:25 pm Post subject:

Yes, it's the posts inside the threads that show the oldest first. I'd like our preference settings to allow the newest first, always, without further intervention on subsequent logins.
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klieber · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 11:13 pm Post subject:

BWoso · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:45 am Post subject:

is it implemented in phpBB, sorry, I'm not that up to date on phpBB
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Celtis · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 737

If you've not seen it in the 6 months since klieber made that post then I guess not...

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fatcop · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 18

I assume that phpBB doesn't have a concept of thread "status" that we can use to indicate when a thread about an issue is "solved".
Again I assume that is why the "[SOLVED]" in the title has caught on.

I failed to find (easily) any information in FAQ etc about:
a) that we should even add "[SOLVED]" to the title.
b) how to do it.

I certainly is valuable information to know.
I know I've seen encouragement to do it in members sigs.

I propose that perhaps, if possible, a header/flyer be put at the top of the forum page (or the edit page) with maybe a link on how to do it.
Sure its obvious "once you know", but I can tell you that I had to IM another member to find out

Lastly, I guess searching for the word "solved" won't get too many false positive hits (ie. threads that use the word that aren't really solved).
So I spose its as good as having a status field anyways

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