Makes sense to me too Kris.... This is pretty much the only forum I hang out on so I don't know what goes on out in the real world, but I didn't really have a problem with the way it was before.  It's kind of wacky  how we are tossed around from page to page now.... (I know, I know... he's fixin' it ) when you post, instead of being taken to the page you posted on, you are taken back to the first page of that thread.  Also when you are in the process of posting, you can't see the comments immediately previous to yours (the latest comments) you can only see the first page of that topic again...

NOT COMPLAINING.... just making observations from the trenches.....

I'm willing to give it a go and let firecracker do his thing before staging an all out mutiny!!

You are not seeing the forum in REVERSE bama??????

As for the emails.... I haven't gotten but one (in my spam folder) in WEEKS!

Kris - I agree with you. Most often topics are listed according ot the last post - which means the topic with the most recent post is at the top. As far as posts within a topic goes, I like the traditional oldest to newest sequence but maybe that's just what I am used to. Apparently we've gotten some feedback that some people want to see posts newest to oldest.

What's that saying...you can please some of the people some of the time but.....

BluDev

 

I read several forums (or I call them "message boards") across the world wide web and on all of them, while threads are presented in order of newest to oldest, messages within the thread are presented oldest to newest.

Now I am admittedly a backwards reader so I can adjust to the new format eventually but to me, it makes much more sense to have messages within a thread read from oldest to newest. For example, if you click on a thread that you haven't read in a while (or maybe, have never read), you have to scroll backward to read what you have missed.

I also read some "blogs" out across the WWW and those do usually present postings in order of newest to oldest but blogs are (usually) only posted to by one person. A blog is like reading someone's diary or journal - in which case, you probably would flip to the most recent entry first!

The forum, in my humble opinion, is NOT a blog but a "running conversation". In order to participate in the conversation, you need to know what's been said and logically (to me at least!) the conversation needs to "read" from oldest comment to newest comment.

DISCLAIMER: This is just my very humble opinion and knowledge I have from my travels out into the great world wide web! If the NWO staff wants to change it, I'll adjust (somehow:-)  

I guess the only way to make this sign work now is to quote whoever we agree with! Otherwise, we'd have to figure out how to turn him upside down!!!¡¡¡ ♥♥♥

BTW: If people don't get e-mail notices of postings, they can easily get to the last post (under the way things used to be ) by clicking on the arrow beside the name of the person who is listed as being the last poster. ♥♥♥

SEE??? ♥♥♥

Yea, really good point about the ditto sign Macca.... I'm gonna miss that little fella...

Pappy, can you turn him upside down???

Patti, are the complainers folks who have taken the time to learn how to quickly navigate to the end of the postings??  If they don't have a green arrow, there's always the little black one at the end of the string of #'s at the bottom that takes you to the last page....

SRedmon...no need to delete your posts!  Let's us know you care!!!