Apologies for raising a very minor point ...

I occasionally use the sorting options in the forums, which are activated when you click on the appropriate header (Topic, Topic Starter, Replies, Views, Last Post).

I introduced a reference topic in the MP forum, and I started the title "000 ..." . I thought that would help to make it a bit like a sticky thread. Clicking on "Topic" would give a list sorted alphabetically, and the "000 ..." topic would appear at or near the top.

Sadly the sorting feature doesn't seem to work very well. The result seems fairly random. It may be because some of the forum titles include special characters.

It is great to see that the MP and FP forums are so active. With about 20 new topics/posts a day (including "I'm new" and "Online now") many of the topics of wider interest (eg Suggs' etiquette topic) just seem to disappear very quickly. Any better way of organising the forums would seem helpful, and better sorting could be the key. The search function is useful, and works pretty well.

This might be worth looking at if it could be fixed in a few minutes. More likely it could be added as #273 on the VS list of things to do. I know they have much more important things to look at.

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Ronnie -

Yeah the way we do the sorting is via the database, so we're falling back on its functionality for handling the special characters. I took a peek under the hood and it's not a 5-minute job so I don't really see it happening. Best bet is to bump threads or if they're super important shoot us a link and we can make it sticky manually.

These forums sure have come a long way since I built them a few years ago on a weekend. Amazing the amount of activity!

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Ronnie -

Yeah the way we do the sorting is via the database, so we're falling back on its functionality for handling the special characters. I took a peek under the hood and it's not a 5-minute job so I don't really see it happening. Best bet is to bump threads or if they're super important shoot us a link and we can make it sticky manually.

These forums sure have come a long way since I built them a few years ago on a weekend. Amazing the amount of activity!

Brad



Brad - many thanks for the very quick and helpful reply. Fully understood.

I think that most of the forum users are content to carry on bumping topics which they like others to see. Grateful for your offer to consider any super-important topic which might get sticky status.

My "000..." topic in the MP forum is somewhere in between. Handy to see at the top of the forum but not super-important:


http://www.flirt4free.com/forums/threads.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=13991&num_posts=1


If one of your team know of the special characters which help to put a topic at the top of the alphabetically sorted list, I won't mind too much if they change the title....


Thanks once again
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