First sorry, if this is the wrong area to post this. Feel free to remove or kill my post if needed.
Ok, since this forum is taking up speed and posts numbers are raising, I stumbled on some problem I usually easy get rid of elsewhere.
The latest post is always at the end, which means you need to enter the page number or click through until you reach the last page, which is quite annoying, if you just want to read the latest posts.
Is there a way to reverse the post order in general or set the forum up to automatically jump to the last page at the bottom? Usually you can setup that somewhere in personal settings, but I cannot found anything like that here. Maybe I am just blind.
On the top of each post are two tabs, one is labeled “posts”, the other is labeled “latest activity”. This is basically the sort order of the posts. I am still trying to figure out how to change the defaults.
Then select user settings. In the user setting towards the bottom, you will see “Display Mode”. Change this to “Latest Activity”.
Unfortunately, I have not yet found a way to do this for everyone automatically. The support folks at vbulletin have offered to do this on the back end with a database query but that does not sound very supportable. It is interesting that in earlier version of the SW it seems the administrator was able to change this.
It does seem a little silly. Obviously, the display preference is an account-specific setting (as it should be). That being the case, allowing the administrator to determine what setting to use as the default on newly created accounts seem trivial. And, a script that could change the setting on existing accounts shouldn’t be difficult. OK, changing existing accounts does run the risk of upsetting the users of those accounts, but it should still be available to the administrator. Of course, there should be multiple levels of administrator accounts, with each level being given certain specific rights.
The default for new users is now “stream view” which is what the call this option. It seems that vbulletin is in the middle of changes to this capability because the sort order is called different things in different places.
I am going to also add something about this to the new user welcome message.
A couple of days ago I noticed the lack of pictures posted here as attachment as people were talking about them. Back than I though they were already removed.
Just now I posted with images and the pictures where gone.
The reason is the sorting order. If “latest activity” is enabled no attachments are shown.
It does not matter if selected manually or in settings.
Certainly I would agree that the forum software is not a finished product: there is quite a lot of room for improvement. What’s a little disappointing is that there seem to be quite a few issues that I would have thought would have been addressed way back in Beta; some of them even in Alpha.
First doing everything I can do to help build this community is important to me. I am on a mission to help people become makers. If we are able to build a robust community of makers that will help people new to creating stuff it will make my day. I know that probably sounds a bit crazy but I really think people that learn how to make stuff are happier and happier people will make the world better. Ok, enough of that.
Now don’t think I am just a “Crunchy Granola Guy” doing all this for purely altruistic reason. I love playing with tech toys and the DrVax community and YouTube channel help support my habit. ?
Second, I found a note dated a couple of months ago from a self-hosted vBulletin user asking about the same thing. Since there was no reply in the public support forum I opened up a support ticket with the support team dedicated to paying customers. Generally they reply in under 24 hours. I will keep everyone informed.
