Forum change...!

[radiator]

To clarify: it used to work by listing the last topics that have been replied to, right?

It listed all topics that had been posted in, in descending order.

I don't quite understand the current system - it seems a bit random and appears to basically work the same as 'unread topics', and so hides all the topics you have posted in.

[Emperor]

To clarify: it used to work by listing the last topics that have been replied to, right?

It listed all topics that had been posted in, in descending order.

I don't quite understand the current system - it seems a bit random and appears to basically work the same as 'unread topics', and so hides all the topics you have posted in.

No I can't quite figure it out either, there are two "active topic" mods available for the forum and I think we've tried them both but the results they return are... mysterious. I don't know what it is doing but actually returning the last threads replied to in descending order should be rather simple, so it seems they have overcomplicated it by getting fancy.

[w3bz]

There was one other I found, or perhaps was a variation on something already in place where it lists topics that have active members in it - of course it might just list ones that have people looking it it but I would've hoped that would do what we're after. Hopefully I'll get a chance to have a go with that Monday / Tuesday

[Pete Wells]

Wow, here's a cool feature of the new forum - if you click the NEW tab next to a thread you've partly read, it takes you to where you left off. Handy that!

Spoilers isn't working on my iPad though... Appreciating all the hard work though, cheers w3bz!

[w3bz]

Wow, here's a cool feature of the new forum - if you click the NEW tab next to a thread you've partly read, it takes you to where you left off. Handy that!

Spoilers isn't working on my iPad though... Appreciating all the hard work though, cheers w3bz!

Oh really? Ah that's handy to know cheers PW - will look at that tomorrow, those Pads don't half throw up some interesting stuff

[I, Cosh]

To clarify: it used to work by listing the last topics that have been replied to, right?

It listed all topics that had been posted in, in descending order.

I don't quite understand the current system - it seems a bit random and appears to basically work the same as 'unread topics', and so hides all the topics you have posted in.

No I can't quite figure it out either, there are two "active topic" mods available for the forum and I think we've tried them both but the results they return are... mysterious. I don't know what it is doing but actually returning the last threads replied to in descending order should be rather simple, so it seems they have overcomplicated it by getting fancy.

Okay. You see when you go directly into one of the sub-forums and it displays all the posts in that category, whether you've read them or not, in descending order of the time they were last posted to? Well, "Active Topics" just does that without the grouping into different categories and applying an arbitrary cut-off point which has variously been last 100 topics and last seven days. Something along the lines of:

SELECT * FROM tbl_Posts WHERE Topic_ID IN (SELECT Topic_ID FROM tbl_Posts GROUP BY Topic_ID HAVING MAX(Post_Timestamp)> Sysdate()-7)

Wow, here's a cool feature of the new forum - if you click the NEW tab next to a thread you've partly read, it takes you to where you left off. Handy that!

Conversely, that used to work on the old forum but seems to be a bit unpredictable since the change. Although that could be my impatience.

[w3bz]

Oh to see it like the above - horrible horrible system....

Anyways, yeah I find most of the search related queries a bit...odd...

[w3bz]

[spoiler]testy testy ipad...[/spoiler] <-- for iPad click it. If not on iPad this is a way of keeping the spoiler revealed scrap that, that created a war between the 2...sigh

[Proudhuff]

To clarify: it used to work by listing the last topics that have been replied to, right?

It listed all topics that had been posted in, in descending order.

I don't quite understand the current system - it seems a bit random and appears to basically work the same as 'unread topics', and so hides all the topics you have posted in.

No I can't quite figure it out either, there are two "active topic" mods available for the forum and I think we've tried them both but the results they return are... mysterious. I don't know what it is doing but actually returning the last threads replied to in descending order should be rather simple, so it seems they have overcomplicated it by getting fancy.

Okay. You see when you go directly into one of the sub-forums and it displays all the posts in that category, whether you've read them or not, in descending order of the time they were last posted to? Well, "Active Topics" just does that without the grouping into different categories and applying an arbitrary cut-off point which has variously been last 100 topics and last seven days. Something along the lines of:

SELECT * FROM tbl_Posts WHERE Topic_ID IN (SELECT Topic_ID FROM tbl_Posts GROUP BY Topic_ID HAVING MAX(Post_Timestamp)> Sysdate()-7)

Wow, here's a cool feature of the new forum - if you click the NEW tab next to a thread you've partly read, it takes you to where you left off. Handy that!

Conversely, that used to work on the old forum but seems to be a bit unpredictable since the change. Although that could be my impatience.

Is it too much to ask for?    all the posts in one place, most recent at the top.

I'm a simple man of simple tastes...

[radiator]

Yeah, any progress?

The thing about the current system is that you might want to go back and comment on a thread you were reading earlier, but as no one has posted in it since, it has disappeared from 'Active Topics' and it can be a real ball-ache to find again - especially as the 'search' function is next to useless and it can be tricky to remember what section of the forum it was even in in the first place. 

[I, Cosh]

Yeah, any progress?

In the interim, how abou the mods just move every post into Off Topic?

[Emperor]

Yeah, any progress?

In the interim, how abou the mods just move every post into Off Topic?

Righto.

[Bolt-01]

This is the first evening in a while I've had chance to sit and actually read the forum, so I'm pleased to see that It isn't as different as I thought it might be at first. The only comment I'd make so far is it would be nice to have the 'top of page' button back.

I do quite like the minimalist look at the moment though.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Just an idea I'd like to throw out. It's about the forum banner. I know, that's probably at the bottom of your list of priorities right now, and rightly so. But I would like to suggest is, that in this interim period, we have a wee competition on the forum to design a new banner. There's a lot of talented artists posting on here, all that's needed is a suitable brief and format

[The Legendary Shark]

Ooh yes - I second that idea.

Also, will you be adding a chatroom? I've heard rumblings about this possibility for a while now...