Recent Posts gone silly

old stuff and in reverse order

[dcheney]

Did something change or did I hit something stupid on accident?

[Sinner_G]

If you did something stupid, I did the same.

[msr986]

Wow, I'm glad someone else is having the same problem.....

I was beginning to think it was September 18 all over again!

[jackofalltrades]

im seeing unanswered messages....maybe we've to take the hint! ;)

[Marcia]

That is so incredibly annoying! LOL..

>im seeing unanswered messages....maybe we've to take the hint!
We better dive in just to get rid of them.

>I was beginning to think it was September 18 all over again!
Like Groundhog Day at WebmasterWorld. :)

[dcheney]

jack...

Yes, same here - only seeing threads with only 1 message.

[Sinner_G]

Seems like recent posts is now ordered by # of posts in the thread. The last threads in the list are google updates september and october.

[jackofalltrades]

OK then....Ill take the first 5....someone take the next 5....and so forth.... :)

JOAT

[dcheney]

Clicking on the Column Title (like "Date") sorts by that field. (Not sure if that's new or not.) But clicking a second time to reverse it doesn't work. And the default for "Recent Posts" seems to be by Message Count.

[creative craig]

Another typical day :)

[Sinner_G]

So here is the workaround for recent posts addicts like me :)

Click on 'recent posts'
Click on the column title 'date' to sort by that
Click on the 'Next' button down the page (for those who have default layout)
Change the query in the URL to page=200 or above

Reload that page every so often

<added>page=159 at the moment</added>

[edited by: Sinner_G at 10:35 am (utc) on Nov. 21, 2002]

[Nick_W]

Thank the net I'm not alone! I pressed the 'unread msg's' link and thought I'd messed something up...

Ohhhhh... no..... I may have to do some W*** this morning now :(

Nick

[Dino_M]

I'm going for breakfast until this gets sorted :)

[Brett_Tabke]

Thanks for noticing.

This is only a test. The test will continue.

We do a great job and most things, but we let quite a few orphans slip through the cracks.

Imagine standing in large room of - oh say, 12000 unique people. You ask a question of everyone standing around you and no one answers. Even if it is to just nod and say they don't know the answer.

That's what an orphan post is like to me. Trying to answer everyone's question - whether the green horn first day newbie, or the old pro - is one of the few absolutes I've put on paper here as part of the mission statement.

Some threads are really statements and don't need a response. Such as news items or alerts. It's that first time poster that I'd like to address and atleast point them in the right direction.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 10:42 am (utc) on Nov. 21, 2002]

[dcheney]

Brett,

Any chance that sorting by date with newest first might be enabled as an option?

[Sinner_G]

I see the problem Brett, but aren't you afraid of threads with one question at the beginning and then 25 'I don't know posts'?

[Brett_Tabke]

Sometimes that's true, and sometimes you have to get creative about it. Point them to a search engine search, or to a resource site. Most of us are se user pro's and can find just about anything for someone.

[Nick_W]

How about a general call to all members to check the 'unanswered msg's' link now and again?

People generally jump on what you say Brett, (and why not) so it may have the result you need without changing the 'norm'? -- just a thought.

Nick

[Sinner_G]

True. But then I think it should be a separate button ('unanswered list' or similar) while keeping the recent posts as it was.

I guess you still have some fine tuning to do, but I thought I'd mention the 'thread removed' and such threads anyways. IMO they shouldn't be on that list.

<added>OMG, until Nick_W's post I never noticed the 'unanswered messages'</added>

[DaveN]

Brett what is the criteria for is - mods, admins, senior, preferred members.

People who have donate

People who didn't buy you a drink at the pubcon....

DaveN

[Nick_W]

I think it's fairly new Sinner_G I only noticed it yesterday...

Nick

[DaveN]

The other problem is who is answering the new threads.

I use the active threads to monitor about three or four forums so a can scan for I can help or I can't help is easier than is.

going to hang in the private members area and think about this TEST.

DaveN

[Brett_Tabke]

...we now return you to your regularly scheduled threads..

Thanks for playing along on our home addition. We might have to make this a weekly regular feature.

[DaveN]

We might have to make this a weekly regular feature

can we just go back seven days then ;)

DaveN

[ScottM]

Brett, regardless of the other posts here, I kinda liked it.

The idea that there is such a thing as a 'free lunch' is so easy to think when reading here. You have always encouraged participation.

Well, by locking things up for an hour or so, it forced me to try to contribute, rather than just 'take'.

In short, I liked it.

[Brett_Tabke]

It just seems silly that once a month we dig up things like betting on when the update is going to happen when there are many other topics of equal value. Some times a nudge is just a nudge.

[lazerzubb]

>>The idea that there is such a thing as a 'free lunch'

Sounds like someone listend to George Lucas's comdex speach ;)

[troels nybo nielsen]

One of the great qualities about WW is that newbies can have answers from some of the world's most qualified people in matters concerning search engines. It's good to see that Brett is eager to keep that quality.

[ann]

I answered a few, but to be honest, I am not that up on some of the things they are asking. :)

Ann

[Macguru]

>>I am not that up on some of the things they are asking.

Especially in the "Perl and PHP CGI Scripting" forum for me. Sometimes, when those guys come up with threads titles like fopen fputs and feof [webmasterworld.com], I just wonder if I am still on planet earth. ;)