On 7/22/07, Sebastian Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As far as I could see it in all phpBB forums until now, the messages are sorted by the date and time are posted, but by whom they're answering to.
I think you meant to say: "As far as I could see it in all phpBB forums until now, the messages are [not] sorted by the date and time [they] are posted, but by whom they're answering to." phpBB forums are sorted by all three characteristics: date, time, poster. As I'm sure you know, any single phpBB forum may be divided into sub-forums or categories. Each category has threads in it, with the newest threads at the top (sorting by 'time and date'). A thread is a group of posts, the first post being the thread's seed and the others being replies to that post (sorting by 'whom they're answering to'). When reading a thread, the posts are also displayed with the seed at the top and the replies below, in chronological order (a second sorting by 'time and date'). While not a phpBB forum, LinuxQuestions.org is a great example of how all three characteristics are used to group and display the discussions. phpBB isn't that different from LQ's default, which lets you tweak a lot of display preferences (maybe you like oldest on bottom? no problem). To add more suggestions to the pile, maybe a new sub-forum in "Linux - Distributions" area of LQ would helpful. At least for OpenMoko. . . I don't know where/if the Neo and later devices would fit. Also, another way to have a usable 'forum' (both from mail and web) is a Google Group. Google groups offer RSS feeds as well, file and page hosting, and moderation. Do I need to mention that search is also a feature ;-P Joe _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
