On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:13:36 -0500, Vladimir Panteleev
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 12:27:44 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
you receive an A+ from me!
BTW, is there any way to sort the threaded view so that the newest
messages appear on top? Simply because, in a web page, the top is what
shows up first.
Thanks :) The reason why I chose to sort by older posts first is a bit
convoluted:
Generally, in a threaded discussion, replies always have to appear below
their parents. Even though it's possible to sort siblings in the reverse
order, it would be rather inconsistent. The same goes with entire
threads - the last post in a group will appear as the *bottom-most*
child of its parent, inside the *topmost* thread.
Having the newest post at the bottom of the top-most group is acceptable
for a threaded view, simply because in a threaded view, that is the
natural order.
But having the newest item near the bottom of the page makes it slightly
annoying, since it isn't the focus when the page loads.
Would a simple "scroll to bottom on page load" in javascript be possible?
I know there are some nicks on this newsgroup who don't like JS, but their
browser simply won't scroll. So what.
This was not a problem for the split-view mode, because JavaScript
scrolls down the message list when the page is loaded. I've finished the
threaded view after the split-view, which inherited its order. I decided
to leave it as it is for consistency with what the view was modelled
after - mailing list archives.
I understand. I'm just used to webnews which put the threads with the
newest posts on top. But I think a simliar javascript solution would be
acceptable.
I'm thinking that we could eventually have a "Preferences" page, where
we could go nuts with options and customization.
Probably, this is a cool project. If I ever come across having to use
forum software, I'm going to use it.
Now, you just need the management pages to administer a real forum :)
-Steve
