The new firmware thread and Q for Gary/NNNNsic

[atencati]

Wow, I just noticed the Firmware thread has overwhelmed the long running HKSupplies thread as the mos viewd topic. And all in about 10 days....interesting.

Hey guys, great job with the forum. Is there a way to extend the recent topics menu to infinity or 100 or so threads? I know I would find it helpful to keep up. Thanks again!!!!!

Andy

[birddog114]

Andy,
Those contributors are from other forums.
At least we now known by worldwide.
Thanks CC and sihrc55 for put this thread up into other forum.
and Gary, you've got a big smile on your face.

[W00DY]

Is there a way to extend the recent topics menu to infinity or 100 or so threads? I know I would find it helpful to keep up. Thanks again!!!!!

Andy

I have asked for this also

I am finding it very difficult to kepe up with the forum unless you are logged on 24 x 7

The restriction was a very valid one though. Gary pointed out to me that if the top section is extended then the actual forums won't be displayed until half way down the page (or something similar) making it harder to browse the forums. I agree with him.

There is a link on the right hand side "View posts since last visit", maybe this would be more helpful?

W00DY

[Mj]

I am finding it very difficult to keep up with the forum unless you are logged on 24 x 7

Woody... you have answered your own question here... simply be here 24x7 and you may not missed too much

[Nnnnsic]

I'm looking into a way to add a search new posts option similar to other boards where you can just find all the threads with posts you haven't seen yet.

[Greg B]

There is a link on the right hand side "View posts since last visit", maybe this would be more helpful?
W00DY

The problem with this very useful option is that threads you don't get to disappear from this list when you log off and log back on later.

As a variation on atencati's suggestion, maybe we could have another link to a full Recent topics listing (or if not full, maybe 100 or something)

It would also be helpful to be able to return to this list from the thread instead of returning to the forum index. Or to be able to return to whatever list you came from.

[atencati]

I was thinking make the recent topics title a link to a page with last 100 or so. ?? Does that work, I'm not up on the forum side of html / php BB

Andy

[sirhc55]

Wow, I just noticed the Firmware thread has overwhelmed the long running HKSupplies thread as the mos viewd topic. And all in about 10 days....interesting.

Hey guys, great job with the forum. Is there a way to extend the recent topics menu to infinity or 100 or so threads? I know I would find it helpful to keep up. Thanks again!!!!!

Andy

Hi Andy

Actually it has gone berko (mad) in the last 4 days - but my question here is - has anyone else noticed a slowing down of this site with all of the hits? I am running broadband and last night it was like being on dial-up. Or is it just me getting older by the day



Chris

[gstark]

The change to extend the recent posts section is easy, but it raises the question of where to stop it.

As has been pointed out, any addition here imposes a cost in terms of where the actual forums listing starts, and I settled on 8 as a reasonable compromise. Bumping it to 10 wouldn't hurt too much, but anything beyond that I think would be to the detriment of the forums in general.

Leigh's said that he's looking for a few other things, and I have some references that he's sent me that I need to look at next week, once I get back to civilisation.

or Sydney.

[phillipb]

I'm with you Chris, I've noticed it too.

[gstark]

I'm with you Chris, I've noticed it too.

I'll switch the connection through to the higher bandwidth connection next week as well.

Thanx for letting me know.

[Deano]

There is a link on the right hand side "View posts since last visit", maybe this would be more helpful?
W00DY

The problem with this very useful option is that threads you don't get to disappear from this list when you log off and log back on later.

As a variation on atencati's suggestion, maybe we could have another link to a full Recent topics listing (or if not full, maybe 100 or something)

I'm with Greg. I often have 10 minutes to pop in for a look. If I use the View post since last visit option but don't get trough all the posts, I loose them when I next log in.

Some sites have a chronological most recent posts page with an option to chose posts for the last N days. This would be very useful.

Cheers
Dean

[W00DY]

I am finding it very difficult to keep up with the forum unless you are logged on 24 x 7

Woody... you have answered your own question here... simply be here 24x7 and you may not missed too much

Between your suggestion and Birddogs offers my marriage is truly over

W00DY

[Glen]

Gary, I also have noticed the slowdown like Chris

[MattC]

Broad what??? No such thing in my area. Dialup is it, and I have really noticed a performance hit.

Waiting, waiting, waiting....

Not complaining, I am happy to be able to spend time in this forum.

Cheers

Matt