Features / Usability

Posted by JamesMelhuish 12 Jul 2004 18:40 GMT-0000 posts: 14

I know this question has been asked at least once before, but there was no reply to it.

Is there any way to view all messages in a Threaded View on one page for All Topics? Actually we would want to filter by date or by number of topics, say 20 topics per page.

Many users of my forum are asking for this. The main reason is that it is very quick to scan a whole page looking for unread posts and topics, because the unread posts URL has not been highlighted as read, and all (recent) posts are on one page. Currently to find unread posts, a user has to open each topic to see the thread, or try and remember who the last poster was for a given topic. Both are difficult, annoying, and time consuming.

The feature "Show Posts" -> Last Hour, Last 24 hours, etc. only works on the current view. So any topics added to a forum are shown (last hour, last 24 etc.) BUT NO REPLIES to these topics are shown, even if they were posted in the last hour. For that, you need to open the actual topic (and indeed every topic) and then use the Show Posts feature. But this is not really productive as it is just as easy to simply look at the actual replies.

So, any thought of a threaded view for the forum. How about "Show Posts" that work on ALL recent posts, not just the current view?

Thanks in advance.
- James