Forum:Post Pagination

what is your sort preference?

[LeoXIV]

Well, imagine you have a new born forum and it is day 1 and you have 10 posts, so the index page for this first 10 posts will be:

/forum/page1

and day 2, you have 10 more posts. do you:

a. put the day2 posts in /forum/page2
b. put the day2 posts in /forum/page1 and move day1 posts to the forum/page2

what do you think?

[John Carpenter]

I would not move anything. It could become costly over time (after you forum gets huge). I'd just assign a new id to each new page/post.

[LeoXIV]

yes, thats sotra the direction i was thinking to ...

however, what do you think about this forum's (WW) practice, which is more so the option b, for example:

[webmasterworld.com...]
always holds the newer posts and the older posts 'trickle down' to page1 and so forth.

[John Carpenter]

I'm guessing they want to show SE's that their pages are frequently changing, to get better rank. Just a speculation, nothing more.