Puting an overall last topics page

How can it change a board?

[goldminer]

Our board have a lot of forums and subforums, and with 2K posts a day it is already hard to follow, for addicted members, and also for mods.

Puting a simple page where last topics from all our forums appear in topic creation date reverse chronological order can first be seen as a good fix.
That allows everybody to monitor and don't miss a thing, ans can increase overall posting.

Sure that would ease members that go a little bit everywhere.

But won't it affect our focused traffic? Any experience? I don't see a lot of forums doing it, so there may be a good reason.

[Rolozo]

Yes hacks are available for phpBB and vB.
Very easy to install.

[rogerd]

VBulletin lists the threads most recently posted to in reverse chronological order (rather like the "recent posts" feature here). That's really handy in a big forum with many subforums - a member or mod can easily look at the most recent activity.

If I understand the objective, goldminer, it's to list the most recent threads ordered by thread creation date? I can see where that would be useful, too.

[goldminer]

Thank you for the answers, and, well, sorry for my terrible written expression. :)

I just wondered in which proportions such an overall last topics page will generate flood on my board.
It is a stupid fear i guess!
Can offering users easier ways to browse your board be a bad thing?

I should also put a recent posts feature, like in WebmasterWorld.
Or the rolls royce : these 2 features, with an addon that allows each user to select which forums he want to be listed in.

We'll do it and see, as usual ;-)